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SOLDIERS OF 
THE PRINCE 




CHARLES E. JEFFERSON DD. 



To Accompany the Junior Text-book 

Soldiers of the Prince 



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SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 



A Story of Missions and Peace 



By 

REV. CHARLES E. JEFFERSON, D. D 

Pastor Broadway Tabernacle 

New York City 



"Yet with the woes of sin and strife 

The world has suffered long; 
Beneath the angel strain have rolled 

Two thousand years of wrong; 
And men at war with men hear not 

The love song which they bring. 
O hush the noise, ye men of strife, 

And hear the angels sing." 



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Table of Contents 



List of Illustrations 

Introduction . . . 

A Parable of War — Ruskin .... 

Chapter I. — World Conquerors .... 

Isaiah 9; Ephesians 6: 10-17 

Chapter II. — Why Men and Nations Quarrel 

The Son of God Goes Forth to War . 

Chapter III. — Being a Soldier Every Day 

Quotation— Vict or Hugo . 

Chapter IV. — Famous Soldiers of the Prince of Long Ago 

From The Arsenal at Springfield — Longfellow 

Chapter V. — Soldiers of Yesterday 

Quotation — Tennyson and A Prayer for Peace 

Chapter VI. — What Boys and Girls Can Do for the Empire 
of Love 

Chart and Compass for the Juniors 

Library for the Soldiers of the Prince . 



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List of Illustrations 



Little Sufferers from War 

A Useful, Peaceful Army of Filipinos who Love their 
School and Work 



War Drives People out of their Homes to Sleep in Ruined 
Churches ....... 

Jolly Chinese Children Saved by the Soldiers of the 
Prince ........ 

Driven from Home by War, with no Place to Go . 

A Little Neutral 

Girls on Dress Parade in Kemendine School, Rangoon 

Caring for a Horse Wounded in Battle 

Happy Little Soldiers of the Prince Drilling in China 

A Small Soldier in India ..... 

She Rescued her Doll 

A Hero of War Rescuing a Wounded Comrade 

St. Martin's, Canterbury 

Helping the Cripples Made by War 

Cathedral of Canterbury, England 

The Christ of the Andes 



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Little Sufferers from War. 

Alone in the world, but sister takes care of baby 



IN this year of war, 1916, we 
ask the boys and girls of 
America to study this book 
written for them. Soldiers 
must all go through their drill 
— these are first lessons for re- 
cruits. May all who learn 
them be faithful soldiers in the 
Army of the Prince and become 
Heroes of Tomorrow. 

CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON THE 

UNITED STUDY OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 

West Medford, Mass. 



A Parable of War 

I dreamed I was at a child's May-day party, in which every 
means of entertainment had been provided for them, by a wise 
and kind host. It was in a stately house, with beautiful gardens 
attached to it; and the children had been set free in the rooms 
and gardens, with no care whatever but how to pass their after- 
noon rejoicingly. They did not, indeed, know much about what 
was to happen next day; and some of them, I thought, were a 
little frightened, because there was a chance of their being sent 
to a new school where there were examinations; but they kept 
the thoughts of that out of their heads as well as they could, and 
resolved to enjoy themselves. The house, I said, was in a 
beautiful garden, and in the garden were all kinds of flowers; 
sweet grassy banks for rest; and smooth lawns for play; and 
pleasant streams and woods; and rocky places for climbing. 
And the children were happy for a little while, but presently they 
separated themselves into parties; and then each party declared, 
it would have a piece of the garden for its own, and that none of 
the others should have anything to do with that piece. Next, 
they quarrelled violently, which pieces they would have; and 
at last the boys took up the thing, as boys should do, "practi- 
cally " and fought in the flower-beds till there was hardly a 
flower left standing; then they trampled down each other's bits 
of the garden out of spite; and the girls cried till they could cry 
no more; and so they all lay down at last breathless in the ruin, 
and waited for the time when they were to be taken home in the 
evening. — Ruskin. 



World Conquerors 
i. 

COME, boys and girls, and let me put the world 
in your eye. Do not be afraid that the world 
is too big. You have no idea how large the 
eye is and how much it will hold. You could get a 
hundred worlds into it if you tried, but I want to put 
in only one. Did you ever shut your eyes and imag- 
ine you saw the world hanging in space? It is only 
a big ball, as you know, turning on its axis and 
traveling round the sun, and on its surface there are 
oceans and continents and islands, and on the islands 
and continents hundreds of millions of human beings 
are living, and it is a good thing always to carry this 
big ball in your eye. Some people carry their back 
yard in their eye, others carry their town, a few 
carry their nation, but every boy and girl ought to 
learn early how to carry the whole world. 

One of the best ways of getting the world in your 
eye is to draw maps. How many of you like to do 
this? It is great fun to do it, and if you once begin 
you will not want to stop. Begin with North Amer- 
ica, and then try South America, and then all the 
other continents, one after another, until you have 
completed a map of the world. Do not forget to put 
in the islands, for they too are important, and human 
beings live upon them, and it is because of human 
beings that I want to get the world in your eye. 

After you have learned to draw a map of the 



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world, then begin to save your pennies to buy a 
globe. Every boy and girl who wants to get the 
world in his eye ought to own a globe. He ought to 
turn it round and round until he knows just how 
every continent looks, and how every inhabited 
island looks, and all the time he ought to keep think- 
ing of the men and the women, and the boys and the 
girls who live upon these pieces of land. 

For if in this way you get the world in your physi- 
cal eye it will slip gradually into the eye of the mind, 
and you will be able to see the world even when 
you are not looking at the map or the globe. You 
can look at it when you are walking along the street, 
and you can see it even after you go to bed and shut 
your eyes. If you do not believe this, try it this 
very night. 

After the world has slipped into your mental eye, 
you will find after a while that you are carrying the 
world on your heart. The old Greeks used to be- 
lieve that there was a Titan by the name of Atlas who 
because of a wrong deed, was condemned to stand 
on the western edge of the world and hold up the 
heavens with his shoulders and his hands. I am 
sure that even a Titan could never do a thing like 
that, but every boy and girl can carry the world on 
his heart. We carry the world on our heart when 
we are interested in it, and concerned about it, and 
want to make it happier and better. You have no 
idea, yet, how wicked and miserable the world is, and 
if you once get it in your eye, you cannot very well 
help getting it on your heart. 

I have read somewhere that when Oliver Crom- 



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well was Protector of England he always kept a big 
globe in the council chamber, his idea being that 
English statesmen ought to keep their eyes not 
simply on their own little island but on the whole 
world. And it was because Englishmen, hundreds 
of years ago, trained themselves to carry the world 
in their eye, that the sun today never sets on the 
wonderful British Empire. They say that an Eng- 
lish shoemaker by the name of William Carey used 
to keep hanging on the wall of his shop a map of 
the world, and that he made a globe out of pieces of 
leather and always kept this globe on his bench. In 
this way he carried the world first in his eye, and 
then on his heart until at last he gave up shoe mak- 
ing and went all the way to India in order to help 
the people who were living there. 

Both Cromwell and Carey were soldiers of Jesus, 
and I like to think of Jesus as the Prince. That 
was the name given to him by a prophet a long time 
before he was born, and I cannot think of a better 
one. He is the Prince of Peace. He always carried 
the world in his eye and on his heart. He never 
went out of Palestine, and Palestine, as you know, is 
a little country no larger than the state of Connecti- 
cut, but he was interested in all the nations, and was 
always dreaming of ways of doing them good. Men 
in his time were narrow and bigoted. They did not 
like any nation but their own. They looked down 
upon foreigners, and never tried to help them. But 
all this was very distasteful to the broad minded, big 
hearted Prince, and he used to say to his friends — 
"The field is the world." He was so generous in his 



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thoughts and feelings that most of his countrymen 
disliked him. They thought he could not love his 
own country truly if he did not despise all others, 
and that he was not loyal to his fellow citizens if he 
was friendly to foreigners. Their dislike of him 
deepened into hatred, and then hatred led them to 
think of murdering him. This did not frighten the 
Prince, for he was not afraid of death, and he knew 
that if a man has a true idea it will live long after 
he himself is dead. You can kill the body of a man 
but you cannot kill his spirit. If his spirit is beauti- 
ful and loving like God himself, then his spirit will 
live on, and he will accomplish more after his death 
than he did when he was alive. His enemies decided 
that they would have him crucified, but even this 
did not daunt him. Crucifixion was the most horri- 
ble of all punishments and was reserved for only 
the vilest and lowest criminals. The name of a man 
who had been crucified was hateful to everybody, 
and nobody could speak it without a shudder. But 
the Prince knew that it would be different with his 
name. Even though men crucified him he knew that 
his name would be more glorious after his death than 
before, and so one day he said : "And I, if I be lifted 
up, will draw all men unto me." It did not at that 
time seem possible for him to do a thing so wonder- 
ful, and yet today in all parts of the world men and 
women are singing: 

" How sweet the name of Jesus sounds 
In a believer's ear! 
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds. 
And drives away his fear/' 



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Surely he is a mighty Prince, and it is worth while 
to pay attention to everything he said. The last 
thing he said before he left the world was this : "Go 
and make disciples of all the nations. Go into all 
the world, and preach the gospel to the whole crea- 
tion." Of course we must obey, and we must begin 
early to find out just what this command means. 

It covers all the world. The Prince holds the 
world in his eye, and he intends that the world 
shall be in our eye too. He carries the world on 
his heart, and he rolls the world on to our heart 
also. We are to carry his ideas to the end of the 
world. We are to establish his ideals in the hearts 
of the nations. We are to persuade all human be- 
ings no matter who they are or where they live, to 
think as the Prince thinks, to feel as he feels, and 
to live the kind of life which he lived in Galilee. 

Was ever a bigger job than this given to mortals? 
Think of what it means. This world does not like 
Jesus. It does not want to accept his ideas or to 
feel as he feels. It does not want to obey him. It 
wants to do as it pleases, and it gets angry whenever 
it is asked to do what the Prince says. The nations 
do not want to go to school to him. They think 
they know better than he what they ought to do. 
They have their traditions and customs, and it pro- 
vokes them when anybody suggests that these shall 
be given up. Some nations are so opposed to the 
Prince that they have killed men who have at- 
tempted to carry out the Prince's orders. Other 
nations pretend to obey him, but they keep right on 
trampling upon his wishes. The fact is, the Prince 



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has millions of enemies and they are found in all 
parts of the world. They have built forts for the 
defense of their kingdoms. They have dug trenches 
and it is hard to drive them out. They are deter- 
mined never to accept the ideas of the Prince, and 
they propose to resist all of his servants. The 
Prince wants to set up a kingdom of goodwill, a 
kingdom in which everybody will love everybody 
else and try to help everybody as much as possible, 
but the enemies of the Prince do not believe in good- 
will. They like to be suspicious and to hurt and to 
hate. The empire of hate is very old and very 
strong, and it will take a mighty effort to pull it 
down. The Prince has set his heart on a kingdom 
of justice, a kingdom in which everybody will do 
what is fair, nobody cheating anybody or doing any- 
body a wrong, but the foes of the Prince have a dif- 
ferent ambition. They want the privilege of lying 
and stealing and taking advantage of others, and 
they say all the time : "We will not have the Prince 
to rule over us!" 

He wants to establish a kingdom of peace, a king- 
dom in which there will be no war or getting ready 
for war. In his kingdom men will no longer fight 
but work. They will live not to kill but to save. 
They will find delight in helping human beings in- 
stead of hurting them. Everybody will have a heart 
filled with feelings of goodwill toward all the world, 
and the will of God will be done upon earth as joy- 
fully as it is done in heaven. But this is a kind of 
kingdom which many men do not want. They like 
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kill. Others do not like to fight but they like to 
think of fighting. They like to fight sham battles. 
They revel in war games. They do not want to kill 
anybody but they love to practice the art of killing. 
They love to play with guns. They like to talk of 
battles. They carry battle fields in their eye. They 
like to read of slaughter. A book is not interesting 
to them unless a lot of men are killed. These men 
are enemies of the Prince. He was so gentle hearted 
that it pained him to have one man hurt another man 
even with a word. He believed that men ought not 
to harm one another, but that their chief business in 
this world is to help one another. He is the Prince 
of justice, and goodwill, and peace. 

Since the world is what it is and the Prince is what 
he is, you can see that his followers must be soldiers. 
Did you ever think of a christian being a soldier? A 
soldier is a man who is enlisted in an army, and who 
obeys a commander, and who fights for the rights 
and principles of his country or King. Now every 
christian is enlisted in an army, for that is what the 
church is. It is sometimes called the church mili- 
tant, and by that we mean that it is a fighting church. 
A christian is under a Commander — Jesus Christ the 
Prince of Peace. He is a great fighter — the greatest 
the world has ever seen. He is always making war 
on injustice and cruelty and greed and falsehood and 
every kind of wickedness. He does not fight with 
guns. He fights with ideas, arguments, pleadings, 
and chiefly with love. Every christian fights for his 
country and King. His real country is the kingdom 



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of love, and God is his King. Every christian there- 
fore is a soldier. 

Why do we not think of christians as soldiers ? I 
presume it is because they do not put on a uniform, 
and march behind a fife and drum and carry muskets 
and swords. Some people think that there is no way 
of fighting except in war, that there are no weapons 
except those made of steel, and that the only way to 
be really brave is to put on a uniform and follow a 
fife and a drum. 

But this is a mistake. Christians are genuine sol- 
diers, and they are enlisted in a long campaign. 
They have a strong enemy to conquer, and they can- 
not conquer him unless they are as brave as any 
general who ever died upon a battle field. 

One of the Prince's bravest followers in the first 
century was Saul of Tarsus, whom we call Paul. 
He loved to think of himself as a soldier, and he 
called his fellow-workers fellow-soldiers. There was 
a young man named Timothy of whom he was spe- 
cially fond — and when Paul was in prison doomed to 
death, he wrote a letter to Timothy, saying: "Suffer 
hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus." 
The world was full of the soldiers of Caesar, and 
Paul loved to think of himself as a soldier of Christ. 
He held his head as high as any soldier of Caesar. 
He believed that he was engaged in a far fiercer war 
than any in which Caesar ever fought. He did not 
feel that the soldiers of Caesar were a whit braver 
than he was or that they were called to endure 
greater hardships and privations than he endured. 
And, moreover, he was not ashamed of his Com- 



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mander. Paul believed that Jesus Christ was far 
greater than any Caesar, and that in comparison with 
Jesus the Head of the Roman Empire was a pigmy 
and weakling. Even though he did not cover him- 
self with armor after the fashion of the Roman sol- 
diers he was sure that he wore armor just as real as 
theirs. They wore their armor on the outside: he 
wore his on the inside. Their armor was made of 
steel : his was spiritual. Their armor was complete, 
it protected the whole man. His also was complete, 
for it covered every part of him. He never coveted 
the beautiful and shining armor of Caesar because 
he knew that his own armor was infinitely finer. 

Do you remember the names of the pieces of 
armor which Paul says a christian soldier must put 
on? He must have a belt, and his belt is truth. He 
must have a breastplate, and this is righteousness. 
He must have sandals, and his sandals will carry 
him on errands of peace. His big shield will be 
faith, and his helmet will be hope, and his sword will 
be the Word of God. What a wonderful picture of 
a soldier that is. You could not photograph him or 
paint him, for the camera cannot get on the inside 
of us and take snapshots of our tempers and disposi- 
tions. These are the armor of a christian. We do 
our fighting by certain dispositions and we get those 
dispositions from the Prince. He had them and 
used them and the enemy was never able to wound 
him. If we use them too, we also shall come off 
victorious. 

Yes, our weapons are partly dispositions and 
partly ideas. We overcome by the things which we 



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think. If we take the ideas of the Prince, his ideas 
of God and man and duty and character, we shall 
not be overcome by other ideas belonging to some 
other prince not half so wise or good as the Prince 
of Peace. That is why Paul says that the Word of 
God is a sword. The Word of God is made of ideas. 
We must know how to use those ideas if we are to 
prevent other ideas from getting possession of the 
world. Ideas are mightier than dynamite, and it is 
wonderful what they can do. A good idea can light 
up the mind and brighten the home and strengthen 
a nation, but a wrong idea can do more mischief than 
anybody can measure. The Prince himself once had 
a fight with his greatest enemy, and in that fight 
the Prince used again and again the Word of God. 
Some day you ought to read again the account of 
that wonderful battle. It is called "the temptation" 
and all soldiers of the Prince ought to be familiar 
with it. 

The soldiers who use swords and guns spend much 
time in studying the campaigns of Alexander and 
Caesar and Napoleon, for it is by the study of the 
methods of great commanders that other soldiers 
learn how to conquer. We ought to study constantly 
the methods of the Prince as they are written in 
the gospels, for if we adopt his methods we are cer- 
tain to win the battle. And then action is also a 
christian weapon. We must use our feet as well as 
our lips. We must go where we are needed. This 
is why Paul speaks of the sandals. We must travel. 
Some of us need not travel far. Many soldiers never 
go outside their own town. Others must go a long 



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distance. They must go hundreds of miles from 
home, it may be half way across a continent, in order 
to please the Prince. Others must cross the ocean 
and make their home in far distant lands where they 
cannot at first understand the language, and where 
e /erything is entirely different from what they have 

towtl at home. These christian soldiers who go 
r f rom home are known as missionaries. A mis- 
sionary, as you know, is one who is sent. Another 
name is apostle. An apostle also is one who is sent. 
The one word is Latin and the other is Greek, but 
they both mean the same thing. In our country we 
do not call christian soldiers apostles, we call them 
missionaries. 

Did you ever think of missionaries as soldiers? 
Did you ever think of how much courage it takes to 
be a missionary, to say goodbye to all one's friends, 
and all one's relatives, and to give up all the good 
things at home, and to travel thousands of miles 
across land and water, and to settle down among 
people whom one does not know, and get accustomed 
to their queer ways of living, and learn to like the 
things which they eat, and to master the language 
which they speak, and to be patient with their stu- 
pidity and ignorance, and to put up with all their 
disagreeable ways, and, it may be, to be opposed 
and threatened and imprisoned and beaten and pos- 
sibly killed? Some people never think of these 
things at all. They suppose that only soldiers in 
uniform behind a fife and drum do brave things. 
When soldiers in uniform start out to war there is 
a great commotion in the town. Everybody is ex- 



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cited, and everybody talks. There is music, and 
there are flags, and possibly speeches, and boys and 
girls stand round gazing with wide open eyes, and 
old folks look out of the window, and the biggest 
men in the town hurrah, and it all gets into the 
papers, and everybody thinks that those soldiers who 
are going out to kill men are the bravest men in all 
the world, but when soldiers of Christ start out for 
some far off battlefield where they are to be on the 
fighting line not for a few hours or days but prob- 
ably for years, the town pays no attention to them 
at all. The reporters are not on hand. There are 
no bands playing. There are no processions, no 
applauding crowds, no adoring boys and girls, no 
eulogistic speeches from the Mayor and the con- 
gressman. Possibly not a dozen people in the town 
ever give a thought to the wonderful courage of 
these departing soldiers of the Prince. 

They are going forth to conquer the world. There 
are four classes of world conquerors, and with three 
of these, most people are well acquainted. First of 
all, come the warriors, the men who have demolished 
cities and made the earth run blood. Next the ex- 
plorers, the men who have roved over the seas and 
roamed over the lands for the sake of excitement and 
adventure, and sometimes with a desire to add to the 
stock of the world's knowledge concerning the 
planet on which we are living. After these, come 
the traders, the men who have gone to the ends of 
the earth in order to make money. There is no 
region where they are not found. The story of their 
exploits and successes stirs the heart. But the 



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greatest of the world's conquerors are the soldiers 
of the Prince. None can match them in heroism or 
in perseverance, in the magnitude of their achieve- 
ments or in the permanence of the results which have 
followed their efforts. If you want something more 
fascinating than stories of war, then read about the 
battles of the soldiers of the Prince. If you want 
something more thrilling than fiction, read the lives 
of these soldiers. If you want tales of adventure 
which will make your hair stand up, then read how 
North America and Africa were explored by soldiers 
of the Prince. If you admire men who are not 
afraid of wild beasts or serpents or deadly insects 
you will adore these soldiers. If you love men who 
are not afraid of anything at all, and are ready to 
plunge into vast forests where no one has ever ven- 
tured before, you will love these soldiers. If you 
want to read about men every whit as brave as Han- 
nibal or Koratius or Leonidas or Marshal Ney, then 
read the story of these soldiers' deeds. You will 
find in them every trait which you admire most, and 
every quality which you picture in your favorite hero. 
These men have not gone out to kill, but to save, 
and it is harder to save men than to kill them. They 
have gone out to make war upon ignorance, and it 
is easier to rob men than to instruct them. They 
have made war upon disease, and it is easier to kill 
giants than it is to kill microbes. They have waged 
war against superstition, and nothing is so hard to 
kill as a superstition which is thousands of years old. 
Blowing up forts with explosives is child's play com- 
pared with blowing to pieces old superstitions by 



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ideas furnished by the Prince. They have marched 
out to pull down abominable institutions such as 
slavery. An institution is an idea which has become 
so big and strong that it rules not only the thoughts 
but the lives of men and nations. Of all bad insti- 
tutions slavery is one of the worst. The soldiers 
of the Prince have been obliged to fight it in many 
lands, and many soldiers have lost their lives in the 
long war, but who would not be willing to lose his 
life if only millions of men and women might be set 
free? They have made war on foolish and demor- 
alizing customs. A custom is a habit which has 
gotten in its grip not only one man or woman but 
a whole multitude of people. Some savages have 
the custom of eating one another, and some barbari- 
ans have the custom of burying sick people alive, and 
some civilized people have the custom of throwing 
babies into a river to be eaten by the crocodiles, and 
nearly all nations, whether civilized or barbarous or 
savage have had the custom of settling disputes by 
killing men. This is the stupidest and most ludi- 
crous and most tragic custom of all. The custom 
of settling disputes by killing men is called war. 
Upon this wicked custom the soldiers of the Prince 
of Peace make uncompromising warfare. They have 
fought it all the way around the world, and they are 
going to keep on fighting until they win the victory. 
War is a sort of demon which must not be allowed 
to stay on this planet. There is no room for it here. 
We want the world for other uses. So long as war 
stays, people cannot be happy, and they cannot have 
those dispositions which God wishes them to have. 



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War breaks down in the human heart all the beauti- 
ful things which God loves to see there. In time of 
war men tell lies, and steal, and burn, and kill. War 
is more cruel than any monster you ever read about 
in the story books. It has no mercy on anybody. It 
crushes old men and women who are tottering on 
the edge of the grave. It burns the roof over the 
head of invalids who are too weak to walk. It drives 
poor people out of their homes in winter time into 
the fields to freeze and starve. It makes holes in 
the bottom of big steamships so that a thousand 
human beings are drowned at once. It blows poi- 
sonous gases over the fields so that every living 
thing lies down and dies. It blows to pieces the 
most beautiful works of art, and leaves nothing but 
ruin where before there was loveliness and plenty. 
It drops bombs from the clouds blowing mothers 
into shreds of bleeding flesh, and tearing to pieces 
babies in their cradles. This you see is a bloody 
monster, and the Prince of Peace hates it with all 
his heart. He wants this monster killed for he can- 
not set up his kingdom until it has been destroyed. 
The only reason the tyrant has lived so long is be- 
cause the soldiers of the Prince have not fought him 
with all their might. They have been too much 
afraid of him, and other princes have hoodwinked 
them into thinking that maybe war is not so bad 
after all. But the soldiers of the Prince ought to be 
deceived no longer. The war in Europe has shown 
everybody that war is just as bad as it can be. It 
has thrown off all its false faces, and we can now 
see just what it looks like. It is the most hideous 



22 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

of all the enemies of mankind. We must get rid of 
it, and the sooner we do it the better. 

How can we abolish war? There is only one way 
— by love. Nations must be taught to take the 
christian attitude to one another, and that is the 
attitude of goodwill. They must be trained to live 
peaceably together. They can do this if they only 
try. They must be given the ideas of patience and 
forbearance and forgiveness. A nation ought to be 
as patient as a mother is with her children. They 
must adopt the christian method of overcoming evil 
by good. A great many big folks laugh at all this 
and think it very foolish, but you must pay no atten- 
tion to them, for the Prince of Peace pities them and 
longs to see them come into a better frame of mind. 
They think and talk as they do because they do not 
know the Prince. They may know his name, but 
they do not know him. To know him is to have his 
spirit, and his spirit is sweet and friendly. He is 
everybody's friend. 



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QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER ONE 

1. What does the author mean when he says that he wants 
to "put the world in your eye"? 

2. How did William Carey get the world in his eye and what 
happened then? 

3. Who is called the Prince of Peace? Why? 

4. Repeat the command which the Prince has given to us. 

5. Describe the Empire of Hate. Where is it found? 

6. What are the duties of the soldiers of the Prince? 

7. Give three reasons why Paul proved himself such a brave 
soldier of the Prince, and describe his armor. 

8. Name the four classes of world conquerors. Why is the 
last class called the greatest? 

9. Why has war earned the name of "bloody monster"? 
10. How may war be abolished? 



Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: 
they joy before Thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men 
rejoice when they divide the spoil. 

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and 
garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel 
of fire. 

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the 
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be 
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting 
Father, the Prince of Peace. 

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no 
end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order 
it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from hence- 
forth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform 
this. Isaiah 9 

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power 
of His might. 

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand 
against the wiles of the devil. 

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against princi- 
palities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this 
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may 
be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. 

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and 
having on the breastplate of righteousness; 

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able 
to:quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, 
which is the word of God. Eph. 6:10-17 



Why Men and Nations Quarrel 
ii. 

NATIONS quarrel for the same reason that men 
quarrel, and men quarrel for the same reason 
that children quarrel. If we can find out why 
boys and girls quarrel, we shall know why there are 
wars. A boy holds in his heart the secret of all his- 
tory. Did you ever ask yourself why it is that boys 
fight? Some boys seem to fight without any rea- 
son whatever. It is their nature. They fight be- 
cause they are full of fight, and it has to come out. 
It is as natural for them to fight as it is to breathe 
or eat or sleep. Not all boys are equally pugna- 
cious, but all human beings have in them a good deal 
of the stuff of which quarrels are made. It has 
often been said that man is by nature a fighting ani- 
mal. He certainly often acts like an animal. Ani- 
mals fight and kill one another, and in some way or 
other the disposition of animals seems to have gotten 
into human nature. The first reason, then, why boys 
fight is because there is so much of the animal in 
them. They are bundles of appetites and instincts 
and impulses, and the reason has not gotten firmly 
established on the throne. Reason is always op- 
posed to fighting, but instinct is sometimes stronger 
than reason, and human beings act as though they 
had no reason at all. 

Now men are only children of a larger growth, 
and in many of them the animal remains strong. 



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They do not develop their reason. They make no 
earnest effort to curb their appetites and passions. 
They remain creatures of instinct and impulse, and 
when things do not go to suit them, they fight. 
Some men are naturally quarrelsome. They snap 
and snarl and bite like animals. They wrangle and 
brawl and make themselves a big nuisance. Such 
men are called rowdies, and if they are always pick- 
ing on somebody smaller than themselves, we call 
them bullies. They are not much above the level of 
a bulldog, and it is hard to get on with them. There 
have been nations which were much like an animal. 
They did not care to think and so they fought. They 
had no taste for high and beautiful things, but took 
delight in shedding blood. Such nations are now 
called savages, and all men who have developed their 
brain and heart pity them. 

It is the nature of an animal to think only of him- 
self. He wants the best of everything and he wants 
it for himself. When you see the animals fed in a 
zoological garden you notice that every animal looks 
out for himself. Every bear grabs all the bread that 
he can get his big paws around, and every lion and 
tiger snatches the biggest piece of meat within its 
reach and rushes off with it. The wolves and hy- 
enas do the same. And if there is not enough meat 
for all, then there is sure to be trouble, for the ani- 
mals fight over it furiously and the strongest of them 
always gets it. If you cannot go to a zoological gar- 
den to study animal nature, you might experiment 
some time with two pigs. Put down some corn in 
front of them, and see what happens. Neither pig 



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will wait for the other, for pigs do not know the 
meaning of politeness, and the bigger pig will shove 
the weaker pig aside. Or if you do not live in the 
country where pigs grow, then you can experiment 
with your dog and cat. A dog always looks out for 
himself, and it makes no difference to him whether 
the cat gets anything to eat or not. We cannot help 
pitying the cat, but she has the same selfish nature. 
She always looks out for herself. She wants the 
warmest place in the sun, and she would never think 
of giving up that place in order to accommodate an- 
other cat. When she catches a mouse she does not 
divide it with a neighbor cat, but devours it all her- 
self. All animals are selfish, they look out solely for 
themselves. This is why they fight. 

When boys and girls fight, it is because they are 
selfish. They look out for themselves. They want 
all the good things they can get hold of, and if they 
cannot get them in any other way, they will fight 
for them. There has been many a quarrel in the 
home because two boys wanted the same thing at 
the same time. Both could not have it, and so there 
was a fight. If a boy is greedy he is sure to be en- 
vious of the boy who has what he wants. When he 
becomes envious, it does not take long for him to 
pick a quarrel. Some boys are always squabbling. 
One day it is for one thing, and the next day it is 
for something else. They meet other boys just as 
selfish and greedy as themselves, and then there is 
a clash. They give one another a tongue lashing, 
or if they are very coarse and rude they use their 



28 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

fists. Girls do not use their fists, and so they use 
their tongues. 

Men fight because of their enormous selfishness. 
Selfishness is a disease which grows on one as he 
grows older, and unless prompt measures are 
adopted to cure it, it is certain to ruin one's life. 
Business men are often as selfish as hyenas, and have 
no more pity for one another than hyenas have for 
the hyenas of another pack. They grab everything 
they can get their hands on, and they trample on 
their rivals without mercy. There is almost as 
much cruelty in the business world as there is in the 
jungle. Men struggle furiously for the big prizes, 
and some of them do not hesitate in order to get 
what they want, to trample upon all the laws both 
of God and man. Business men do not often kill one 
another, but some of them become enemies of one 
another, and do everything in their power to ruin 
one another. The competition which goes on con- 
stantly in the business world is a kind of war, and 
in this war thousands of hearts are embittered, and 
many homes left desolate and sad. 

If men are so greedy and envious, it is not sur- 
prising that nations occasionally quarrel. For a 
nation is made up of men, and no nation can be 
better than the men who make it. If the men are 
greedy, then the nation will be greedy, and if the 
men are all the time shoving and jostling one an- 
other, then nations will also do the same thing, and 
now and then the world will be deluged with blood. 

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forests, or the same markets, or the same influence 
in the councils of the world. Wanting the same 
things they come to dislike one another. The na- 
tion which lacks what it wants becomes envious of 
its neighbor, and this neighbor knowing that it is 
envied, becomes suspicious, and out of this envy and 
suspicion comes war. 

There are other bad things in this world beside 
greed, and suspicion is one of the worst of them. 
No boy can be happy if he suspects that the other 
boys are his enemies. Life is scarcely worth living 
to a girl who thinks that all the other girls are 
against her. It is only as we are able to trust those 
around us that the heart is able to sing. There is 
nothing that so darkens the sky as suspicion. Peo- 
ple who have a suspicious disposition are the most 
miserable of all mortals. The fearful thing about 
suspicion is that it runs into something else. If we 
suspect a person we come soon to fear him, and if 
we fear him, it will not be long before we hate him, 
and when hate has once taken possession of the 
heart, all bad things are possible. Boys and girls 
cannot live peaceably together if their hearts are 
torn by suspicions. Nor can men and women. The 
ties of friendship are snapped the moment a suspi- 
cion is allowed to build its nest in the heart. 

Thousands of years ago when the world was 
young and men did not know one another beyond 
the locality in which they lived, they took it for 
granted that all men who were not like them must 
be their enemies. Every foreigner no matter who 
he was or where he lived was put down in the list 



30 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

of foes. It was a foolish notion, and one wonders 
why it did not die out long ago. It still lives on, and 
will continue to live until it is crushed by the soldiers 
of the Prince. There are so-called christian nations 
which imagine that all their neighbors are their 
enemies. Assuming this, they go on to think that 
their neighbors will break in and rob them unless 
they have thousands of men on guard with guns. 
They say in a loud voice that they themselves do 
not intend to attack anybody, or to do anybody the 
slightest wrong, and that the only reason they have 
so many men with guns at their doors is because 
their neighbors cannot be trusted. Their neighbors 
are villains and cut-throats and must be watched day 
and night. Of course this makes these neighbors 
feel uncomfortable, and seeing so many men with 
guns, they too feel that they ought to have armed 
men on guard, and so they endeavor to have more 
guns than anybody else. It is in this way that the 
world came to adopt the policy known as armed 
peace. It is built on the notion that nations are the 
natural enemies of one another, and that one nation 
is sure to rob and kill another nation unless it is 
beaten off with clubs. This was the notion of the 
savages who used to live in caves, and it is held still 
by men who consider themselves civilized. So long 
as the policy of armed peace is the accepted policy 
of nations, it will not be possible to rid the world 
of war. Big armies and navies breed suspicions, 
and these suspicions create armies and navies still 
bigger, and this goes on until at last the nations are 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 31 

so nervous and ill humored that there is nothing left 
for them to do but to fight. 

Indeed when one gets to rummaging in search of 
the reasons why we have such a quarrelsome world, 
he finds that wrong ideas have as much to do as any- 
thing else. The world's head is full of foolish no- 
tions, and until these notions can be driven out the 
nations will not sheathe the sword. Many a boy 
fights not because he wants to fight, but because he 
thinks it is manly to fight, and that if he does not 
fight he will be considered a coward. Every boy 
wants to be brave, and nothing hurts him worse 
than a taunt from some other boy that he is lacking 
in courage. Almost any boy would rather fight than 
be counted a coward. He prizes his honor above 
everything else. He wants to be a man, and do 
what a man would do, and he has been told that it 
is a manly thing to fight. Fighting, he thinks, is a 
proof of heroism. All the heroes he has read about 
were great fighters. He does not like to fight but 
he would rather fight than lose the good opinion of 
the other boys. His ideas of manliness and honor 
and courage are all wrong, and so is his idea of 
patriotism. He has never heard the word patriot 
except in connection with a gun. There are no pa- 
triots so far as he knows except soldiers. Patriotism 
means willingness to fight. A genuine patriot is a 
man who is ready to kill men belonging to another 
nation. This is the common idea of patriotism, and 
the idea is not confined to boys. It is the idea of 
multitudes of men. If men accept such ideas and 
act on them, we must continue to have wars. 



32 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

What we need most of all is to learn the ideas of 
the Prince. His ideas are entirely different from the 
ideas of many of the men who have a reputation for 
being wise. He was the bravest man who ever 
lived, but he never struck a man with his fist. He 
never tried to scare a man by brandishing a sword. 
When men threatened to stone him he did not pick 
up a stone to throw at them. He refused to do this 
not because he was a coward, but because he was a 
hero. He had such a high sense of honor that he 
would not stoop to do an unmanly thing. Men did 
their utmost to insult him but he never allowed him- 
self to be insulted. He was so far above the men 
around him that it made no difference to him what 
they said. If a king riding through the street had 
a face made at him by some little six year old urchin, 
do you suppose he would feel insulted and order that 
the child should be spanked? If the President of a 
great university should be called a hard name by 
some loafer on the street corner, do you think the 
President ought to stop long enough to knock him 
down? Nobody can stain our honor but ourself. 
There lives not a man on the earth who can stain 
the honor of another man. If coarse and stupid men 
say things about us which are not true and do things 
to us which we do not like, we show our strength 
and manliness by going forward and paying no 
attention to them. When a silly king one day said 
foolish things about the Prince, the Prince held his 
tongue. When the king asked a question the Prince 
refused to answer. When the king requested him 
to do a certain thing, the Prince declined to obey 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 33 

him. Only a brave man could have held his tongue, 
and only a strong man could have controled his 
temper. 

There is much foolish talk about national honor. 
Generals and Admirals talk about it often. They 
talk sometimes as though they were the only custo- 
dians of it, and that they alone could tell when it 
has been insulted. Such men are sometimes cocky 
and imagine insults when there are none. They 
have the superstitious notion that you can wipe out 
an insult with blood. It is a queer theory. An offi- 
cer of another nation refuses, let us say, to salute 
our flag. He is told to fire a certain number of guns 
in front of it to prove that he is respectful toward it. 
But he refuses. An officer of our nation then de- 
cides that our Republic has been insulted and that 
the insult must be washed out in blood. In whose 
blood? His own? Not at all! In the blood of the 
man who refused to fire the salute? By no means. 
Nobody who has had anything to do with the matter 
is to lose a drop of blood. The blood is to be shed 
by young men who are altogether innocent. Our 
young men are to go with rifles and shoot down as 
many young men as possible of this other nation, 
giving them a chance to shoot down our young men 
too, and in this way our flag will be exalted, and the 
insult will be washed away. Can you think of a 
notion more silly than that? What do you suppose 
the Prince thinks of such conduct? Do you not 
think that he must be sad of heart to find that nearly 
two thousand years after he first proclaimed his gos- 
pel, grown men in America should be so stupid as 



34 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

to think that you can wipe out an insult with blood? 
No insignificant little official of another nation can 
insult our great Republic. His bad manners may 
annoy us but they should not induce us to kill him, 
much less should we hasten to tear boys from the 
arms of their mothers and send them off to shoot 
other boys whose mothers think as much of them 
as your mother thinks of you. Much of this talk of 
a nation's honor is only a kind of nonsense which is 
kept alive in barracks, and which is handed from one 
generation to another by soldiers who do not know 
the Prince of Peace. 

We must go to the Prince for lessons in the mean- 
ing of patriotism. He was a patriot, but he never 
allowed his patriotism to lift his country so far above 
all others that he had only dislike and contempt for 
them. He carried his nation in his eye as every 
patriot always does, but he carried all the other 
nations also. He carried the whole world. He saw 
that the whole race of men is nothing but one big 
family and that all men are to love one another no 
matter under what flag they live. And so he was 
always talking not about his own country but the 
kingdom of God, the kingdom of righteousness and 
peace and joy, the kingdom of faith and hope and 
love. He loved to believe that all men are related 
to one another, because they all have the same 
father, and having the same father, they are really 
and truly brothers. Brothers are not good brothers 
unless they are friendly and kind to one another. If 
they are suspicious of one another, or envious of one 
another, or try to injure one another, then all God's 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 35 

plans are upset, and he cannot make this world the 
kind of world he wants it to be. 

If then you ask me why men and nations fight, I 
should say first of all, it is because of bad disposi- 
tions. They have ugly tempers. They are selfish, 
and suspicious, and greedy and envious. Sometimes 
they are vain and haughty and domineering. Some- 
times they are cruel and revengeful. These disposi- 
tions are the roots of war, and there is no hope of 
lasting peace until these roots are destroyed. I know 
of no one who is able to destroy them except the 
Prince. He said one day to an old man in Jerusa- 
lem — "You must be born again!" He meant by 
that, I suppose, that this man would have to change 
his life from the foundation up. It would be neces- 
sary for him to have a different disposition, a higher 
and nobler spirit. The old man was surprised and 
somewhat discouraged, but the Prince assured him 
that a man's nature can be completely changed. 
We cannot understand how the change is made. 
We only know that it is possible to make it. It is 
brought about by God with the assistance of the 
Prince. 

In the second place men and nations quarrel be- 
cause of false ideas. They have wrong notions of 
the human race, and they do not understand the pos- 
sibilities of human nature. They have mistaken 
ideas of manliness, and perverted notions of cour- 
age, and false views of patriotism. The very things 
which are counted wise by other princes are consid- 
ered foolish by the Prince of Peace. In order to se- 
cure the progress of the world we must listen to the 



36 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

Prince. His first great word is Repent. To repent 
means to change our mind. To change our mind 
is to change our ideas, our notions, our ideals. It is 
not easy to do this but it can be done. It is our duty 
to do it. We should set about it without delay. 
Wars come out of an ugly heart and a darkened 
mind. The Prince is able to light up the mind and 
to sweeten the heart. 

In the third place the reason why men and na- 
tions quarrel is because they do not know any better. 
They are ignorant. Men may go through college 
and still be ignorant. When the Prince was hanging 
on the cross he prayed: "Father forgive them, for 
they know not what they do." That is what he 
prays all the time. Men would not do the things 
they do if they only knew what they are doing. No 
man would drive toward a precipice if he knew the 
precipice was there. The nations of Europe would 
not for forty years have run races in increasing ar- 
mament if they had known they were all to plunge 
at last into a sea of blood. It is because of the world's 
ignorance that millions are miserable and sad. 

The only way out of all our troubles lies in listen- 
ing to the Prince. He is the great teacher. When 
he was alive in Galilee even his enemies confessed 
that no other man had ever spoken as he spoke. 
When he talked to a great crowd on a mountain 
every one was astonished because he spoke as 
though he meant every word and knew exactly what 
he was saying. His mother one day said to some 
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This matter of obedience is one of great impor- 
tance. The Prince insisted on it more than on any- 
thing else. He asked one day why men should give 
him high sounding titles if they did not do what he 
said. He told his disciples that they were his friends 
only if they kept his commandments. He said that 
a man who heard his words and did them, was like 
a wise man who built his house on the rock. No 
matter what storms might come, the house would 
stand. Whereas a man who listened to him and did 
not obey him, was like a dunce who built his house 
on the sand. The first freshet would sweep the house 
completely away. This is the way a general always 
talks. His first word is obedience. A soldier has 
not learned the A. B. C/s of his calling unless he 
obeys. Everything, the Prince says, depends on our 
obedience. If we do not obey him, we cannot know 
him or understand what he means. It is only as we 
obey that we come to know. The more we obey the 
more fully we know. We know so little because we 
obey so little. We need to remind ourselves all the 
time that we are soldiers, and that our supreme duty 
is to obey our Commander. His first command is: 
"Love God." His second command is: "Love your 
neighbor as yourself." These have been the great 
commandments from the beginning, and they will 
remain the great ones to the end of time. The Prince 
said one day that everything hangs on these two 
commandments. 

But how can one be sure that he loves God? By 
loving God's Son — the Prince. How can one be sure 
he loves the Prince? By doing the things which he 



38 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

says. What is the first thing that the Prince says — 
Love! Whom are we to love? Everybody! Our 
friends? Yes. Our enemies? Yes. But what is it 
to love? To serve. We serve when we help. When 
we do good to anybody we serve. The more we 
serve the more closely we resemble the Prince. He 
liked to call himself a servant. He said he came 
into the world not to be served, but to serve. He 
said that his followers ought to be like him. They 
ought to desire to be like him. They ought to be 
happy to be like him. He said also that he would 
rank every man according to the measure of his 
service. No man in the Prince's army is promoted 
unless he serves. The more he serves the more 
rapid is his promotion. The man who gets the 
highest place is the man who serves the most. 

All of this is written in plain words in the gospels, 
and we ought to read it again and again. The Prince 
says that love is the mightiest force in the world. If 
men believed that, they would quit fighting. They 
do not believe it, but believe that gunpowder is 
mightier, and that dynamite is still mightier, and 
that lyddite is mightier still. The Prince says that 
men who are gentle are going some day to possess 
the whole earth, but most people do not believe this. 
They think that rough and cruel men with big how- 
itzers and machine guns are going to get the biggest 
slice of the earth. That is what the Assyrians 
thought, and the Babylonians, and the Egyptians, 
and the Persians, and the ancient Greeks, and the 
Romans, and the Spaniards of the sixteenth century, 
and they all turned out to be mistaken. We may 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 39 

be quite certain that the earth will never stay very 
long in the hands of a nation that uses weapons 
which kill men. Men are made in God's image, and 
he does not want them to be slaughtered. If nations 
persist in making instruments with which to kill 
men, then there is nothing for God to do but to get 
rid of such nations and make room for others. He 
got rid of all the warring nations of the ancient 
world, and he will get rid of all the big-armament 
nations of our modern world in his own way and in 
his own time. Nations sometimes think they can 
do as they please, and so they can for awhile, but 
by and by they must pay the penalty. No nation 
can make itself permanently great by war. The 
Prince says : "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they 
shall be called the sons of God." For a long time the 
Generals and Colonels, the Admirals and Captains 
will be counted the biggest men in the world, but 
their names will at last fade, and only the men who 
have toiled and suffered to establish the ideas of the 
Prince will be enrolled among the mighty. 

To get acquainted, then, with the Prince is our 
very first business. It is because men do not know 
him that they fall so often into the ditch. Anybody 
who looks upon the world today can see that some- 
body has blundered. We know it could not have 
been God. It must therefore have been men. The 
men who have committed the most costly of all 
blunders are the men who have refused to believe 
that love is at the heart of the universe, and that love 
is the mightiest thing in the world. 



40 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 



QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER TWO 

1. What is the difference between instinct and reason? 

2. In what ways are men like the lower animals? 

3. What is meant by a "business war"? 

4. How is it true that "no nation can be better than the men 
who make it"? 

5. What do we mean when we talk about armed peace? 

6. Find as many reasons as you can why nations fight. 

7. What does the Prince of Peace leach about patriotism? 

8. Why must a good soldier obey his commander? 

9. Find the exact words of the Prince of Peace where He 
commands His soldiers to love and to serve. 

10. What has happened to all the nations that waged war 
hundreds of years ago? 



The Son of God Goes 
Forth to War 



The Son of God goes forth to war, 

A kingly crown to gain; 
His blood-red banner streams afar: 

Who follows in His train? 
Who best can drink his cup of woe, 

Triumphant over pain, 
Who patient bears his cross below, 

He follows in His train. 

The martyr first, whose eagle eye 

Could pierce beyond the grave, 
Who saw his Master in the sky, 

And called on Him to save : 
Like Him, with pardon on his tongue 

In midst of mortal pain, 
He prayed for them that did the wrong: 

Who follows in his train? 

A glorious band, the chosen few 

On whom the Spirit came, 
Twelve valiant saints, their hope they knew, 

And mocked the cross and flame: 
They met the tyrant's brandished steel, 

The lion's gory mane; 
They bow'd their necks the death to feel: 

Who follows in their train? 

A noble army, men and boys, 

The matron and the maid, 
Around the Saviour's throne rejoice, 

In robes of light arrayed : 
They climbed the steep ascent of heav'n 

Thro' peril, toil, and pain: 
O God, to us may grace be giv'n 

To follow in their train. 

Heber 



Being a Soldier Every Day 
in. 

DO you suppose that such a thing is possible? 
Some boy says that one cannot be a soldier 
without a uniform, but I suspect he is mis- 
taken. A uniform does not make a soldier. Any- 
body might put on a soldier's suit, but the suit would 
not convert him into a soldier. The uniform catches 
the eye but it does not get hold of the memory. The 
world does not remember the uniform of soldiers 
but the things which soldiers do. Who thinks of the 
uniform which Leonidas wore at Thermopylae, or 
the suit of clothes which Sir Philip Sydney had on 
when he lay dying on the battlefield of Lutzen. It 
was because Sydney refused to take a drink of water 
which he said another wounded soldier needed more 
than he did, that the world will remember him for- 
ever. A man could do a beautiful thing like that 
without any brass buttons on his coat. 

But another boy says that one cannot be a soldier 
without a gun, and it looks as though this were so. 
For all soldiers you have ever seen have had guns, 
and when soldiers march through the streets they 
carry their guns, and when boys play soldier they 
always have toy guns or something which they pre- 
tend are guns. It is hard to think of a soldier with- 
out a gun. And yet a gun does not make a man a 
soldier. When a man takes a gun into the woods 



44 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

to shoot crows or squirrels he is not a soldier. Or 
when a rowdy carries a gun in order to scare people, 
nobody considers him a soldier. Being a soldier, 
therefore, means more than wearing a uniform and 
carrying a gun. 

A real soldier is first of all a fighter, but not every 
fighter is a soldier. A man may fight half his 
time and be no soldier at all. A genuine soldier be- 
longs to an army — he fights along with a lot of 
other soldiers like himself, and he always does his 
fighting under a commander. Now the Prince is a 
commander, and every one who fights under him 
in company with other followers of his is a soldier, 
and one can be his soldier every day. Every day 
there is a lot of fighting to be done, and every day 
the Prince gives commands which must be obeyed. 

If you ask me what it is you are to fight, my an- 
swer is you are to fight two big armies, one of them 
inside of you, and the other outside. The army in- 
side is made up of mean thoughts and ugly feelings, 
and the army outside is made up of lies and wrongs. 
I do not know where all the mean thoughts come 
from, but it is surprising how many of them there 
are. They rush sometimes into the mind with the 
fury of Indians, and it is hard to keep them from 
sweeping us away. And there seem to be even more 
feelings than there are thoughts. Did you ever try 
to make out a list of them? Let me begin the list, 
and you may add to it as many others as you can 
think of. There are angry feelings, and envious feel- 
ings, and hateful feelings, and revengeful feelings, 
and peevish feelings, and despondent feelings, and 




Copyright, Underwood & Underwood, N . Y . 

A little neutral. 

Boys and girls must help to open the Peace Palace at the Hague 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 45 

ever so many others, and against all these evil feel- 
ings one is obliged to carry on a continuous fight. 
Sometimes we win and sometimes we are conquered, 
but whenever we are conquered we must at once 
prepare to fight again. No boy or girl of pluck and 
grit will ever allow himself to be whipped by his 
feelings. 

The army outside is fully as large as the army in- 
side. The world is full of false notions and wrong 
doings, and against these every boy and girl must 
set his face like flint. There are ever so many kinds 
of lies and they must all be attacked and overthrown. 
There are hundreds of bad habits and foolish cus- 
toms and wrong deeds which will never disappear 
from the earth unless the soldiers of the Prince wage 
war against them. They must fight them every day 
of their life. Some of you have worked sometimes 
in the garden and you know how hard it is to keep 
out the weeds. Weeds are very industrious. They 
have never heard of the eight hour day and so they 
work all the time. One must get after them with 
the hoe again and again, or they will completely 
ruin the garden. It is not possible to have a nice 
garden filled with vegetables and flowers unless one 
is willing to fight for it against all the enemies which 
are determined to destroy it. Lies are like weeds, 
they spring up everywhere. Wrong actions are like 
thistles. They grow in every field. If we start out 
to fight all the falsehoods and injustices in the town, 
we have a job which will call for not only all of our 
own strength but for all the strength also which we 
can get from the Prince. 



46 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

There is a curious notion abroad in the world, and 
some of you may have heard it, that war is necessary 
in order to keep men manly. Unless men fight on 
the battlefield — so some people say — they will lose 
their mettle and backbone, and become a lot of sis- 
sies. This is one of the most ridiculous ideas in all 
the world, more ludicrous than the idea that the earth 
rests on the back of an elephant which stands on the 
back of a tortoise, more monstrous than the idea that 
women can be witches and ought to be hung. The 
idea that men are made manly by killing one another 
is an old superstition which came out of the heart 
of the poor savage who used to live in a cave, but 
no sensible person in the twentieth century ought 
to believe it. 

Another queer idea is that soldiers with muskets 
are braver than any other men, and that only on the 
battlefield can a man be truly heroic. All healthy 
boys want to be heroic, and the reason so many of 
them think they would like to be soldiers is because 
they imagine that the life of a soldier gives one a 
better chance to be manly and courageous than any 
other kind of life. This also is an old superstition 
which the soldiers of the Prince must endeavor to 
kill. Soldiers with muskets are not a whit braver 
than thousands of other men, and war gives no finer 
opportunities to be courageous than peace. One can 
be a coward in peace and grow mushy and flabby, 
and so also can one be a coward in war. But if we 
are good soldiers of the Prince we are fully as heroic 
as any man who ever marched up to the mouth of 
a gun. 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 47 

Did you ever think of the heroes of peace? Every- 
body admires the heroes of war. We like men who 
are willing to endure hardships and face dangers, and 
carry their life in their hand. But men do all this 
who never carry a gun. The world could not get on 
a single day if it were not for the heroism of a multi- 
tude of brave men and women. Thousands of men 
every day carry their life in their hand. They do not 
know in the morning whether they will ever come 
home again alive. The engineer on the locomotive 
never can tell at what instant he may be obliged to 
face death, nor can any of the brakesmen on the long 
freight train. Did you ever think of these men as 
heroes? They do what soldiers do. They risk their 
lives, and they do this every day. Men who dig in 
the coal mines are never certain of coming up again. 
Men who work down under the water, laying the 
foundations for the huge piers on which the bridge 
is to rest do not know what moment may be their 
last. The next time you see a man at the top of a 
high steeple painting it, say to yourself, I have seen 
a brave man! Did you ever go through a big fac- 
tory or mill where men are working in the midst of 
dangerous machinery where if they make a single 
false move they will be torn to pieces by the revolv- 
ing wheels? Is this not as dangerous as carrying a 
gun? Everybody knows that a fireman has to be 
brave, for in time of a great fire he may be obliged 
to climb to the top of a tall ladder, and plunge into 
rooms filled with smoke, and drag out women and 
children who without his help would be burned to 
death. Only a courageous man could ever think of 



48 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

becoming a fireman. But a policeman is just as 
brave. No man can be a policeman who is not ready 
to arrest dangerous men carrying revolvers, and to 
go down into dark cellars where burglars are hiding, 
or to rush into the street to try to stop a runaway 
horse. Have you not read how policemen have been 
pounced on and beaten by rowdies, and how other 
policemen have been killed? And women are just 
as brave as men. There is nothing in any town 
which women ought to do that some woman is not 
willing to do. What should we do in our hospitals 
without nurses? But no one can be a nurse who is 
not ready to lay down her life. There are diseases 
which are loathsome, and the nurse cannot run away 
from these. To nurse day after day and week after 
week a patient afflicted with a horrible disease re- 
quires as much bravery as is needed to lie in a trench 
on the battle front. There are contagious diseases 
which are as merciless and deadly as shrapnel, but 
a nurse cannot run. She must stand at her post no 
matter what the danger is. She is one of the great- 
est heroes of peace. 

But there are other heroes than those who run 
the risk of losing their life. It takes a deal of cour- 
age sometimes simply to live. Many are born blind, 
others are born cripples, others are born with such 
frail bodies that they are invalids all their life. There 
are multitudes of men and women lying on beds of 
sickness where they have lain for many years. How 
would you like to fight despondency and despair 
lying on your bed? To be sick and yet keep cheer- 
ful, to be weak in body and yet strong in spirit, to 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 49 

be deprived of many blessings and yet to be grate- 
ful, this is a great victory and only a brave soldier 
can win it. Men and women have won it and so have 
boys and girls. It is one of the greatest victories 
which a mortal can win. Robert Louis Stevenson 
was a famous novelist and through a large part of 
his life he was an invalid. Sometimes he suffered 
all day and at night could not sleep at all. One 
morning he was feeling especially depressed. It was 
a dingy, rainy morning, and life hardly seemed 
worth living. Suddenly he met a boy, with chalky 
cheeks, and spindling legs, coming through the rain 
without an umbrella, and whistling. The cheery 
whistle of that poor sick boy caused the great novel- 
ist to take heart again. The boy had not only fought 
his own battle but he also helped Stevenson to fight 
his. 

Many people are very poor. The wolf is always 
at the door. Their life is one long, long struggle. 
Just to get enough to eat and wear and a place to 
sleep in is all that they can do. Sometimes they 
cannot do that. There are men so sick that they 
ought to be in bed who go to their work and stand 
on their feet all day, just because they want to earn 
bread for their wife and children. They do this until 
at last they can stand up no longer, and then they 
lie down and die. To work when one is sick for the 
sake of others, is not that a brave thing to do? There 
are also women who are so weak in body and so full 
of pain that they ought not to be asked to hold up 
their head, and yet for their children's sake they 
drudge day after day and never so much as murmur. 



50 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

When the big books of God are opened on the last 
great day we shall be surprised to read the names 
of heroes and heroines who never got into the daily 
paper. 

The world would make no progress without re- 
formers. There are men who attack things which 
are wrong and try to lift the world out of ruts into 
which it has fallen. The world never likes reform- 
ers. The world does not want to change its ways. 
It wants to go on as it has gone on always. It does 
not like to be criticised and condemned. It objects 
to anybody pointing out its blunders and sins. It 
wants no new ideas. It prefers to go on thinking the 
old ideas no matter how foolish and false they may 
be. Reformers therefore always have a hard time. 
The Prince one day told his countrymen that they 
had always persecuted and scourged and killed the 
men who had tried to make their country better, but 
that after these reformers were dead, then monu- 
ments were erected in their honor, and their tombs 
were covered with flowers. So it has been in every 
country. No great reformer is ever popular, and 
many a reformer has been lied about and hated by 
the very people he was trying to help. William 
Lloyd Garri^Dn was a reformer. He was in every 
way a noble and useful man, but one day a mob put 
a rope round his neck and dragged him through the 
streets of Boston. Often when he attempted to 
speak at meetings the crowd jeered so loud that his 
voice could not be heard. He was not killed. It is 
not necessary to be killed to be a hero. Most of 
the heroes of history were never killed. It would be 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 51 

interesting for you to make out a list of all the heroes 
you have read about who were killed, and then an- 
other list of the heroes who were not killed. I can 
think of a great many. For instance, Paul was 
killed and John was not. Savonarola was killed and 
Luther was not. Hampden was killed and Crom- 
well was not. Lincoln was killed and Beecher was 
not. Do not imagine that it is necessary to be killed 
in order to prove that one is really brave. Do your 
duty wherever you are, and let the Prince decide 
whether you are to be killed or not. 

But suppose one is not a great reformer and that 
it is not possible to be courageous in any of the ways 
which I have mentioned, is there any chance for him 
to show what is really in him? Yes, there is a chance 
for everybody. One cannot live a single day in a 
world like this without having a chance to show 
courage. A dozen times every day we can tell a 
lie if we wish. Sometimes it requires great grit not 
to tell a lie. If by telling the truth we get ourselves 
into trouble, or offend someone whom we are very 
fond of, it is a strong temptation to tell a lie. The 
reason why there are so many lies told is because 
there are so many cowards. There are men brave 
enough to carry a musket on a battlefield who are 
too cowardly to speak the truth. It is easier to kill 
a foreigner than to offend one of our friends. When 
it came to telling the truth our Prince was simply 
wonderful. He told it to the mob even though the 
mob howled and gnashed its teeth in rage. He told 
it to his dearest friend, Simon Peter, even though 
the truth cut Peter to the heart. He told it to his own 



52 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

mother although it made her sad. When he stood 
before the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, the Gov- 
ernor thought he could scare him by making a show 
of power. But Jesus remained as calm as ever, say- 
ing, "To this end was I born, and for this cause came 
I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the 
truth." Had the Prince ever told one lie, he could 
not have been the commander of the men who are 
going to conquer the world. Every soldier of his 
who lacks the courage to speak the truth everywhere 
and always, handicaps the army in its advance, and 
makes it harder for the Prince to win. 

Soldiers with guns have many things to help them 
do brave things which the soldiers without guns do 
not have. They have excitement. War is always 
exciting. It is full of movement and commotion and 
passion. When we are excited we can do things 
with ease which we can hardly do at all when we 
are cool. But there is seldom any excitement in our 
everyday life. When we speak the truth we must 
do it when everything is calm. When we condemn 
what is cruel or mean we must do it in cold blood. 
When we perform a disagreeable duty we must do 
it not because we are enthusiastic about it, but 
simply because we are sure it is our duty: soldiers 
march to attack, whereas we attack while standing 
still. It is easier to jump when one is running than 
when he is standing. The soldiers of the Prince 
always fight standing. 

Soldiers with guns fight in companies and regi- 
ments. It is easier to do hard things along with 
others than to do them alone. Courage is like mea- 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 53 

sles, we can catch it. Almost any one can be brave 
when he is in a brave crowd. One has no time then 
to be afraid, he is swept along by the others. War 
makes use of men in crowds. It masses together 
hundreds and thousands and millions. He is indeed 
a feeble creature who can be a coward on the battle- 
field. But in peace each man fights his battle alone. 
When he fights his own lower self, there is no one 
by his side to fight with him. When he is trying 
to get out of his mind a thought that is mean, or out 
of his heart a desire that is low, he must struggle 
in solitude. When the time comes for him to de- 
cide whether he shall tell a lie or speak the truth, do 
an unselfish thing or a selfish one, he is as lonely as 
Robinson Crusoe was on his Island before he found 
the man Friday. To be courageous in the battles of 
peace requires every bit of pluck we can muster. In- 
deed we do not have enough of our own. We need 
a little of what belongs to the Prince. I have spoken 
of every soldier of the Prince fighting by himself. 
This is true in one sense, and in another sense it is 
not true. One can be alone, and yet have somebody 
with him. There may be nobody present in the 
body, while there is somebody present in the spirit. 
The Prince one day said: "Men have left me alone, 
and yet I am not alone, my Father is with me." The 
Prince knew from his own experience that no sol- 
dier can fight successfully alone, and so he said to 
his soldiers just before he left them : "Lo I am with 
you alway, even to the end of the world." 

But there is still another reason why it is easier 
to do brave things in war than in peace, and that is 



54 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

because in war men are punished physically if they 
do not obey. If they are told to do a certain thing 
which is hard, and do not do it, they are taken out 
and shot. No soldier is allowed to remain in an 
army unless he does everything which the com- 
mander tells him to do. If he even hesitates, he is 
publicly disgraced, and held up to the scorn of all 
the army. It is easier, sometimes, therefore, for a 
soldier in war to do a heroic thing than not to do it. 
But in the battles of peace one can shirk and receive 
no physical punishment. No one will whip him, or 
put him in jail, or stand him up against a wall and 
shoot him. He can run away when he ought to stand 
firm, and he can act most disgracefully when he has 
a chance to be a man. When therefore a soldier in 
peace does heroic things, it is because the spirit of 
heroism is really in him. He fights courageously 
not because he is afraid of getting shot, for the 
Prince never shoots his unworthy soldiers. He 
simply looks at them reproachingly, in mingled 
anger and pity, just as he looked one time at Simon 
Peter when Peter had shown himself a coward. Did 
you ever feel uneasy and uncomfortable, and perhaps 
miserable after you have run away from a duty, or 
have done something contemptible and mean? I 
think you feel that way because the Prince is look- 
ing at you. He does not whip us with a whip. He 
punishes us with his look. He does not order us to 
be killed. He lets us live on, hoping that we shall 
do better. 

There is no virtue developed by war which is not 
more fully developed by peace. What do you think 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 55 

are the military virtues ? Here they are : Obedience, 
and courage, and sacrifice. No one can be a good 
soldier in an army without these three virtues, nor 
can any one be a good soldier of the Prince without 
them. Loyalty to the Prince comes first of all. We 
must do what he says. It may be disagreeable, but 
we must do it. It may cause us pain, but that does 
not matter. It may lead to death, but even that 
should not hold us back. We are to obey the Prince 
no matter what it costs. He used to say to his fol- 
lowers : "Do not be afraid of men who kill the body. 
They can never kill your soul. Keep your soul clean 
and brave and true and you have won the victory." 
He expects us to be courageous. He can do noth- 
ing with soldiers who are cowards. Bravery is a 
virtue which is called for every day. It is needed in 
the home. Without courage boys and girls cannot 
tell the truth at all times to their parents. Without 
it one cannot do his duty in the school. There lived 
once in England a boy called John Coleridge Patte- 
son. When he was old enough he went to school 
at Eton. He was a wonderful athlete and became 
the finest cricketer in the school. At an annual 
dinner a boy got up and began to sing a song which 
was not nice. What v/ould you have done had you 
been there? The easiest thing to do at a time like 
that is to sit still and say nothing. And that is also 
the cowardly thing to do. John Patteson did not 
keep still. He spoke right out loud. He said: "If 
that is not stopped I am going to leave the room." 
The song continued, and he left. The next day he 
wrote a letter to the captain of the cricketers, saying 



56 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

that unless an apology was offered by that boy who 
sang the song, he would resign his place on the 
cricket team. I am glad to say that the apology was 
offered. John Patteson was a soldier of the Prince 
every day, and like the great Admiral Nelson he was 
not acquainted with Mr. Fear. When John Patte- 
son finished his studies at Eton, he went to Oxford, 
and having completed his course there, he went as 
a soldier of the Prince to help some poor ignorant 
savages on a few islands in the Southern Pacific. He 
was just as courageous there as he had been in Eton. 
He taught the savages to read and write and count. 
He taught them also some of the English college 
games. It must have been tiresome sometimes for 
an Oxford graduate to teach little boys how to add 
and subtract, and little girls how to make beds and 
sew, but he was a hero and he always obeyed the 
Prince. I know you will be sorry when I tell you 
that one day when he went to a neighboring island 
where the people did not know him very well, some 
bad men fell upon him and killed him, and put his 
dead body in a canoe and sent it drifting out to sea. 
And that reminds me of the third of the military 
virtues — sacrifice. We sacrifice when we give up 
something which we like very much. A soldier 
makes many sacrifices, and this is the chief reason 
why painters have loved to paint him, and poets 
have loved to write about him. There is something 
in us which thrills at the sight of sacrifice. Even if 
we are not willing to make sacrifices ourself, we like 
to see others make them. Indeed the world could 
not get on without a lot of people sacrificing them- 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 57 

selves every day. A soldier gives up many things 
he likes. In time of war he leaves his friends behind. 
He would rather stay at home. He lives in the open 
air. In winter he nearly freezes, and in summer he 
nearly melts. He would be far more comfortable at 
home. He marches in the day, sometimes in the rain 
and mud without umbrella and overshoes, and at 
night he sleeps upon the ground with nothing but 
a blanket. He would be far cozier in his bed at 
home. He has only a few things to eat, and those 
few things are not cooked so well as at home. At 
home he can have salads and plum pudding and cake, 
but in war men have to give up the luxuries and live 
on bread and meat. He is obliged to march often 
when he does not feel like it, and he must keep on 
marching after he is tired; and when he comes at 
last to the line of battle he must make his home in 
a hole in the ground. He may be covered all over 
with mud, and he may not be able to wash his face 
for days, and all the time he is in danger of being 
struck by a bullet or having a big shell explode over 
his head shattering his home to pieces. A soldier 
does not wince at sacrifice, for sacrifice is part of his 
calling. 

The Prince makes the same severe demands on 
his soldiers. He plainly says: "Unless you take up 
your cross every day, you cannot be my followers." 
By cross, he means something we do not like to do. 
A cross is an act of sacrifice. The life of a soldier 
of the Prince is a life of sacrifice. His soldiers have 
to give up everything which stands in the way of 
their conquest of the world. He never asks us to 



58 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

give up things simply for the sake of giving them up. 
We are to give up things simply for a purpose. We 
sacrifice only when by our sacrifice some good can 
be accomplished. The Prince does not want us to 
suffer more than is absolutely necessary to win the 
victory. But we must be ready to sacrifice every- 
thing — our time and our money, and our comfort 
and our reputation and even our life itself. That is 
what the Prince himself did. He gave up every- 
thing. He gave up his home, and his early friends, 
and his time, and his strength, and the good opinion 
which men had had of him, and his comfort, and at 
last his life. If he had not been willing to give up 
everything, he could not have been the conqueror of 
the world. Only those who are willing to give up 
everything can follow in his train. 

Begin at once, then, to play soldier every day. 
Obey, be brave, give up. The Prince gives some of 
his orders to us through his subordinate officers. 
Our parents are his officers, and so also are our 
teachers, and our Pastor. What they tell us to do 
we are to do. 

If you have not yet enlisted in the Prince's army, 
enlist today. It is not necessary to wait. Every 
boy and girl can become a soldier of the Prince 
whenever he decides to be one. Today is the best 
of all days for such a decision. And where shall you 
fight? Where you are. You are always on a battle- 
field, for life itself is one long battle, and you are 
never beyond the fire of the enemy. Fight in the 
home! Fight in the school! Fight on the play- 
ground! Fight in your town, and it may be that 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 59 

some day the Prince will want you to fight for him 
at the other end of the world. Do you know who 
said this: 

"Peace hath her victories no less renowned than 
war." 



QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER THREE 

1. What is a genuine soldier? 

2. Describe the two armies that every genuine soldier must 
fight. 

3. What queer ideas have people held about war and soldiers? 

4. What is a "hero of peace"? A reformer? 

5. What are some heroes of peace doing this very day, that 
makes it possible for the world to continue? 

6. Make a list of all the heroes of peace whose names are 
given in this chapter. 

7. Why is it so much harder to do brave things in peace than 
in war? 

8. Mention the virtues that are required in both war and 
peace. 

9. Describe a way in which a school boy can be courageous 
without fighting. 

10. What sacrifices must a soldier of the Prince be ready to 
make? 



The United States of Europe 

By Victor Hugo 

A day will come when you, France, — you, Russia,— you, 
Italy, — you, England, — you, Germany,— all you nations of the 
continent, shall, without losing your distinctive qualities and 
your glorious individuality, blend in a higher unity, and form a 
European fraternity, even as Normandy, Brittany, Burgundy, 
Lorraine, Alsace, all the French provinces, blended into France. 
A day will come when war shall seem as impossible between 
Paris and London, between Petersburg and Berlin, as between 
Rouen and Amiens, between Boston and Philadelphia. 



A day will come when a cannon shall be exhibited in our 
museums, as an instrument of torture is now, and men shall 
marvel that such things could be. 

f A day will come when we shall see those two immense groups, 
the United States of America and the United States of Europe, 
in face of each other, extending hand to hand over the ocean, 
exchanging their products, their commerce, their industry, their 
art; their genius clearing the earth, colonizing deserts, and 
ameliorating creation under the eye of the Creator. 

To you I appeal, French, English, Germans, Russians, Slavs, 
Europeans, Americans, what have we to do to hasten the coming 
of the great day? 

Love one another! 



Famous Soldiers of The Prince 
of Long Ago 

IV. 

THE first one I happen to think of is Paul. 
He was a Jew who at first did not like the 
Prince at all, and did his utmost to bring the 
Prince's wishes to naught. But when Paul once got 
acquainted with the Prince and came to understand 
his plans, he became one of his most enthusiastic 
soldiers. No braver soldier than he ever lived. In 
the first place he carried the world in his eye. He 
was always thinking of people he had never seen and 
wishing he could do something for them. One of 
his ambitions was to get to Rome. It was the big- 
gest and wickedest city in the world, and Paul felt 
sure that if he could get to Rome he would win vic- 
tories there for the Prince. But after he had gotten 
to Rome he was not satisfied. He wanted to go to 
Spain. Now when Paul lived Spain was the western 
end of the world. Nobody at that time knew any- 
thing about lands on the other side of the Atlantic. 
Beyond Spain everything was hidden in deep dark- 
ness. But Paul wanted to go as far as it was possi- 
ble for anybody even to think of going. He was a 
wonderful traveler. In those days it was not easy 
to travel. One had to walk or ride on the back of 
a donkey, and if he traveled on the water it was in 
a miserable little boat that most of us would be 



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afraid to get into today. The result was that some- 
times he nearly lost his life in the sea. One day he 
told some friends of his that he had been ship- 
wrecked three times, and that on one occasion he 
floated on the water for a whole night and day. I 
wish he had told them how he kept himself from 
sinking, and also how he was rescued. You may be 
certain he was not afraid. Near the end of his life he 
was shipwrecked again. He does not tell us about it, 
but his dear friend Luke does. Luke says that when 
everybody on the wrecked vessel was afraid and had 
lost hope, Paul remained calm, and said to them: 
"Be of good cheer !" 

But he had a worse time on the land than on the 
water. On the land there were wild animals, and still 
wilder men. Wherever he went men tried to over- 
turn everything he was doing, and in many places 
they tried to kill him. In one place they were so 
mad at him that they stoned him, and everybody 
thought he was dead. If they did not try to kill him 
they hurt him just as badly as they could. In five 
places they caught him and beat his back with a big 
whip until the blood ran; and in three other places 
they beat his back with rods. And when they could 
not beat him they cast him into prison, and it was 
always into the very worst prison they could find. 
That was the sort of prison into which he was put, 
in the very first city of Europe he came to, but he 
was not at all down hearted. He surprised all the 
other prisoners by singing. He suffered all the hard- 
ships which soldiers who fight with guns experience. 
He was often hungry and thirsty, and sometimes he 



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was nearly frozen. Many times he was sick and 
weary, but he never lost heart. When men go to 
war they always have behind them millions of peo- 
ple who are friendly to them and wish them success. 
They march with friends, and when they fight, 
friends stand by their side. When they are wounded 
friends carry them to the rear and dress their 
wounds. But Paul had little assistance of this kind. 
Most people were indifferent to him. They paid no 
attention to him. They did not care whether he 
lived or died. Many people hated him and wished 
he was dead. But he still kept up his spirits and was 
able to sing. When his few friends tried to persuade 
him not to go into a place especially dangerous, his 
reply was : "None of these things move me," and one 
day he exclaimed : "I can do all things through the 
Prince who strengthens me." Nothing was too hard 
for him. Nothing broke down his courage, or caused 
him to run. At last his enemies caught him and 
gave him to Nero, and Nero ordered that his head 
be cut off. But a man like Nero could never frighten 
a soldier like Paul. Before he was beheaded he 
wrote a beautiful letter to his dear friend Timothy, 
and in this letter he said: "I have fought the good 
fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith, 
and henceforth there is laid up for me the crown." 

Everybody calls Alexander, a king of Macedon, 
the great, but I never hear anybody call Paul the 
Great. I wish you would measure the two men and 
then tell me which you think is the greater. Alex- 
ander was so foolish that he fancied himself to be 
a god. He was so hot tempered that he thrust a 



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pike through the body of one of his friends. He was 
so cruel that he tortured another of his friends and 
then laughed at his cries of agony. He had so little 
control of himself that he drank and drank until he 
made himself sick and died at the early age of thirty- 
three. Do you know who said : "He that is slow to 
anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth 
his spirit than he that taketh a city?" Compared 
with Paul, the man who was complete master of him- 
self, and who went all over the world trying to do 
people good, this Macedonian King looks about as 
small to me as one of those little men on the island 
of Lilliput, and I am surprised that anybody should 
think him great. 

There is another famous soldier you ought to 
know. Ulfilas is his name, and the meaning of the 
word is "Little Wolf." He was a Goth, and he has 
been dead more than fifteen hundred years, but he 
ought never to be forgotten because of one splendid 
thing he did. He translated the Bible into Gothic. 
You must remember that in the fourth century the 
Goths were very ignorant and warlike. The more 
ignorant men are the more they like to fight. These 
Goths were so ignorant that they had no books at 
all. Their language was as wild as themselves. 
They made sounds with their lips but they had no 
alphabet, and no grammar. And so when Ulfilas 
began to try and induce them to become soldiers of 
the Prince he found it would be necessary for the 
people to be able to read what the Prince had said. 
The first thing he did was to make an alphabet. Did 
you ever think how difficult it must be to make an 



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alphabet. An alphabet is one of the most wonderful 
inventions in all the world — far more extraordinary 
than an aeroplane or a submarine. But Ulfilas made 
one. He got a few hints from the Greek and some 
more hints from the Latin, and still other hints from 
other languages, and at last the alphabet was made. 
And then he had to make a grammar. You know 
how hard it is to learn a grammar. It is ever so 
much harder to make one. Ulfilas made a Gothic 
grammar — the first one ever made. After he had in- 
vented his alphabet and his grammar, he went on to 
translate the Bible into Gothic. Nobody now reads 
the Gothic Bible of Ulfilas, but it is one of the most 
famous of books because it lies at the foundation of 
all the Bibles of the great Teutonic race. Because 
Ulfilas made his Bible, it was easier for other men 
to make other translations, and by and by Martin 
Luther made his. It takes just as much courage and 
patience to conquer a language as it does to conquer 
a tribe. 

Soon after Ulfilas died there was born a man 
named Attila. He was a Hun. He was not inter- 
ested in the Prince and his ideas, for he had a pas- 
sion for fighting, and his whole life was spent in 
war. Wherever he went he destroyed men's prop- 
erty and lives, and the world breathed a sigh of re- 
lief when word came that he was dead. Most of the 
Huns, I imagine, thought him a great man, but he 
was only a pigmy compared with Ulfilas. He was 
nothing really but a big butcher, and the world 
shuddered every time it thought of him. He became 
known as "The scourge of God." In one of his wars 



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he compelled another king to pay him six thousand 
pounds of gold, but I am sure the money did him no 
good. He claimed at one time to be master of half 
of Europe, but one night a little blood vessel burst 
and the mighty warrior laid down his arms. No boy 
or girl is ever likely to want to throw a flower on 
the grave of a monster like that. 

Everybody has heard of Columbus, but how many 
of you have heard of Columba? He was born in Ire- 
land in the sixth century and lived there until he was 
over forty years old. One day he decided he would 
spend the rest of his life on the continent of Europe, 
trying to convert the descendants of his ancestors 
into soldiers of the Prince. Just why he came to do 
this I do not know. It is said that one time he en- 
couraged a clan in Ireland to make war on some 
other clan, and that in the war so many men were 
killed his conscience greatly troubled him, and that 
in order to quiet it he decided to save as many men 
as lives had been lost in the battle. But whatever it 
was which started him, we know that one day he and 
twelve companions got into a little boat of wicker- 
work covered with hides and sailed across the Irish 
Sea to a little island called Iona, about two miles off 
the coast of Scotland. Here Columba built his home. 
From Iona he sent out soldiers to fight for the 
Prince. To Iona men in search of light came from 
every direction. Columba converted Iona into a 
fountain of light. You have all read of Treasure 
Island, but how many of you have heard of Iona? 
The second is far more wonderful than the first. 
Columba was an untiring worker. He aimed to do 



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something useful in every one of all the twenty-four 
hours of every day. He was always reading or writ- 
ing or praying or working with his hands, and he 
kept this up right to the gates of death. On the day 
before his death he was at work translating the 
thirty-fourth Psalm. When he reached the words: 
"They that seek the Lord shall not want any good 
thing" he was so tired that he could write no more. 
Early the next morning they found him lying on the 
floor before the altar, and in a few moments he was 
dead. For more than thirty years he had been a sol- 
dier making war from his island on the darkness of 
Scotland, and scattering the ideas of the Prince 
wherever he went. After his death men could not 
think of him without feeling braver, and for a long 
time kings and princes were carried after their death 
to Iona and buried at Columba's feet. Who would 
you rather have been — Columba or Tamerlane? 
Tamerlane was a Tartar and for thirty years his sol- 
diers overran the provinces of Western Asia, killing 
men wherever they went. He was a great robber 
and murderer. You cannot read his life without 
feeling sick at heart. He stole land from the Mon- 
gols and Persians and Turks, and butchered people 
from the Ganges to the Hellespont. In his day men 
counted him great, but to me he is a miserable little 
dwarf. He had a shriveled soul. It is not helpful 
to think about him, and so let us hurry on and think 
of some one better and greater. 

In the very year in which Columba died there 
landed on the coast of England a soldier of the 
Prince who is known to history as Augustine. He 



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was a monk and he came all the way from Rome. 
He brought forty other monks with him, and they 
came to teach the ideas of the Prince. It was a long 
journey in those days from Rome to England, and 
only brave men were willing to undertake it. Augus- 
tine and his forty men were brave but they were not 
brave enough to get to England without assistance. 
Before they had gotten half way to England they had 
heard so many horrible stories of the ferocious in- 
habitants of England that their courage oozed out, 
and Augustine went back to Rome to get permission 
to give up the undertaking. Fortunately for us all, 
there happened to be at that time in Rome a Bishop 
whose heart could not be daunted. It was he who 
had sent Augustine out, and he was not willing to 
surrender to difficulties. For years it had been his 
dream to send the ideas of the Prince to England. 
Before he was chosen to be Bishop of Rome he had 
seen one day in the market place a lot of merchan- 
dise which had just arrived from the far west. 
Among the bales of goods exposed for sale there 
were three boys with fair complexions and light 
flaxen hair. He asked a bystander where these boys 
had come from, and was told from Britain. Not 
much was known about Britain in those days, and 
the monk began to make inquiries. When he found 
out that the people in Britain had not become sol- 
diers of the Prince, he wanted very much to carry 
to them the Prince's message. It was not possible 
at that time for him to go himself or send anybody 
else, but a few years later he was chosen Bishop of 
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somebody should go to England. Through all these 
years he had been haunted by the sunny faces of 
those fair haired boys. When at last Augustine con- 
sented to go he was glad. When Augustine returned 
discouraged, the brave Bishop encouraged him and 
sent a letter of cheer to the other monks, and thus 
heartened Augustine and his companions resumed 
their journey and in due season arrived in England. 
You will want to read some time how Augustine 
was received and how Bertha the wife of the King 
of Kent opened the way for him. She had been a 
christian in France before she had gone to England, 
and it was through her influence that her husband 
and then all his people became soldiers of the Prince. 
All English history is different from what it would 
have been had Augustine never gone to England. 

When Bertha, daughter of the King of Paris, went 
to England to marry the King of Kent she was only 
a young girl. She did not want to leave her home 
but she said "I will go if I may continue to be a 
christian." Because she was faithful the King re- 
ceived Augustine and became a christian too. 

Several hundreds of years before the time of 
Augustine, Julius Caesar, a Roman General, had 
landed in England with his army. He lived before 
the Prince of Peace was born, and therefore we must 
not judge him too harshly because he went to Bri- 
tain not to do the people good, but to find out what 
kind of people they really were and make them sub- 
jects of the Roman Empire. They did not welcome 
his arrival, and they fought so hard against him that 
he returned to the continent, getting ready for an- 



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other visit the following year. This time he killed 
many men and pushed far into the interior, but the 
natives were so brave and fought so furiously that 
the great Roman withdrew before he had conquered 
them. He had overcome many other tribes. The 
Belgians went down before him, and so did the 
Nervii, and so also did the Germans, but the Britons 
were unconquerable. Caesar was a mighty general 
but he was not great enough to conquer Britain. He 
used all the latest weapons of the Roman army but 
they were not sharp or strong enough to overcome 
these half civilized people who lived in their island 
home. Britain was conquered later on, not by gen- 
erals with spears and swords but by the soldiers of 
the Prince of Peace. They came with gentle words 
and gracious thoughts and great ideas and shining 
ideals, and before these one tribe after another went 
down. When you think of Julius Caesar you will 
remember that to the people of his day he was what 
Shakspeare calls him "the foremost man of all this 
world," but you will not forget that he failed to make 
as deep and as lasting an impression on the people 
of Britain as was made by Augustine and his forty 
monks. No one of us has any reason to be ashamed 
of the Prince of Peace. He is able to win victories 
where the greatest of the warriors have been 
defeated. 

There are few boys and girls who have not heard 
of St. Patrick, for there is a day every year set apart 
for his special honor. He never called himself a 
saint, and the Pope has never called him a saint 
either, but he was so brave and true and good that 



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the people formed the habit of calling him a saint 
and that is what they will call him, I suspect, for- 
ever. Some men are so wonderful that after they 
are dead everybody talks about them. When every- 
body talks about a man you may be sure that many 
things will be said which are not altogether true. It 
is hard to keep from exaggerating when we talk 
about anybody whom we admire very much, and 
wonderful stories spring up about dead men, nobody 
knows just how. And so it has come about that 
there are so many stories about this man Patrick it 
is impossible to say how many of them are true and 
how many are false. About all that we can be sure 
of is that he was born in Scotland and that when he 
was a boy of sixteen he was kidnapped and carried 
to Ireland where he was held as a slave for six or 
seven years. Finally making his escape to the coast, 
he fell in with some pirates who carried him to the 
continent where he remained nobody knows just 
how many years. Through all these years he carried 
in his eye the country in which he had lived a slave, 
and in his heart he carried always a deep desire to 
go back to that country and tell the people about the 
Prince of Peace. It is a wonderful fact that when 
one wants very much to do a thing which God also 
wants done, there is almost certain soon or late to 
come a chance of doing that very thing. Patrick 
dreamed for years of going back to Ireland, and at 
last his dream came true. The people did not give 
him a very friendly reception, for it is said that they 
met him with a shower of stones, but a reception like 
that does not chill the heart of a soldier of the Prince. 



72 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

Patrick showed the people that he was not afraid of 
them and wanted to do them good. He went from 
place to place, telling people about the Prince. In 
many places he was persecuted and he had no end 
of hardships and trials. But he had a stout heart and 
nothing could break down his courage, and before 
he died he had succeeded in bringing almost the 
whole of that island under the dominion of the 
Prince. It is amazing what one soldier can accom- 
plish if he is only brave and wise enough. We do 
not know in what year Patrick was born, nor do we 
know the date of his death, nor do we know all the 
things which he did. He lived so long ago that he 
is hidden in the mists. In his day there were no 
daily papers or magazines, and it was so difficult to 
write a book that very few were written. Much of 
what Patrick did therefore is known today only in 
heaven. We know enough however about him to 
convince us that he was one of the bravest soldiers 
which the Prince ever had. 

Did any of you ever hear of Jenghiz Khan? He 
was a Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. 
If you had lived in that century you would have 
wanted to get your eyes on him for he was counted 
one of the greatest men alive. His name was known 
everywhere and there were millions who were ready 
to praise him. The chief thing he did was to make 
war. He liked to turn his soldiers loose in a city 
that they might pillage it, and then set it on fire. 
When he was not plundering he was killing. It is 
said that in one day he left one hundred and sixty 
thousand dead men on the battlefield. There was a 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 73 

city which did something which displeased him, and 
so he captured it, and butchered — so historians tell 
us— over one million of its inhabitants. It is not 
worth while to read the life of a man like that. Some 
people might even now be willing to call him one of 
the world conquerors, but I am sure you are not. 
He succeeded in getting a large part of China under 
his heel, but he soon died and then his big empire 
faded away. If you stand up a man like this Mongol 
butcher by the side of a man like Patrick, one looks 
like a savage and the other a saint. Do you know 
who said that the name of the wicked shall rot? The 
name of Jenghiz Khan is one of the names which 
the world does not care to remember. 

I should rather remember a man like Winfried. 
That was his first name, but when historians now 
write about him they always call him Boniface, 
which means Benefactor. That was what Winfried 
truly was. He was a great doer of good deeds. He 
was an Anglo Saxon and was born in England, and 
there is where he lived until he was over thirty. His 
life there was comfortable and safe, but he could 
not get Germany out of his mind. He knew that the 
Germans knew little or nothing about the Prince, 
and he longed to cross the channel and teach them 
his message. We must remember that in the days 
of Boniface the Germans were worshipers of idols 
and that the Pagan priests hated the name of Jesus. 
One of their gods was called Thor, and in one part 
of Germany there was a huge oak sacred to this god. 
It was the chief object of popular worship, and Boni- 
face having arrived in Germany, decided to cut it 



74 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

down. It was a dangerous thing to attempt to do, 
but Boniface did not shrink. On a day appointed 
Boniface went out with an ax and proceeded to cut 
the tree down. Thousands of the people had gath- 
ered around the tree expecting to see Boniface fall 
dead for attempting to do such a wicked thing. They 
were sure that their god Thor would never allow a 
stranger like Boniface to cut down his most sacred 
tree. But wonderful to say, a thunder storm came 
up, and while Boniface was using his ax, a stroke 
of lightning tore the tree to pieces. Thousands of 
Germans then and there became convinced that the 
God of Boniface was greater than any of their gods. 

I cannot begin to tell you all of Boniface's adven- 
tures, or relate all of the things that he suffered. No 
soldier with a gun ever had a harder time than he 
had. When he was an old man of seventy-four he 
took fifty soldiers of the Prince with him and made a 
journey into a part of Germany where the name of 
the Prince was specially disliked. One night a 
crowd of Pagans swooped down upon him and his 
companions and killed them every one. It is said 
that the old man, seeing he must die, quietly laid his 
head down upon a Bible, and in that position re- 
ceived the blow which ended his life. To die on a 
Bible is surely as brave as to die on a field of battle 

Who do you think was the greater man — Boni- 
face or Napoleon? They call Napoleon the great, 
and great he certainly was in the art of digging 
graves and piling burdens on the backs of men which 
they have been compelled to carry to the present 
hour. Napoleon was a great general, but he was not 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 75 

great as a man when measured by the standard of 
the Prince. The Prince said that if any man wants 
to be really great he must serve. That is something 
which Napoleon did not try to do. Like an animal 
he looked out for himself. It was his ambition to 
compel others to serve him. He liked to get men 
under his thumb. He wanted to lord it over all 
Europe. It is said that his ambition cost the lives 
of three million men. He was such a pest that at 
last they caught him and shut him up on an island, 
and kept him there till he died. On his island he 
used to think of himself and the Prince and he con- 
fessed that his own life had been a failure. 

Boniface lived only to serve. His ambition was 
not to kill men but to kill foolish ideas and savage 
customs, and to establish the reign of love. He was 
as courageous as Napoleon and far more manly, 
and whereas the splendor of the name of Napoleon 
is slowly fading the name of Boniface will shine like 
a star forever and ever. 

We now see the difference between the soldiers 
of the Prince and the soldiers of Mars. Mars is the 
god of war, and Jesus is the Prince of Peace. The 
soldiers of Mars never stay at home. They go 
abroad to win glory. Their ambition is to subdue 
their neighbors. They want to steal what their 
neighbors possess. If their neighbors object to giv- 
ing up what the warriors demand, then they are 
killed and their cities are looted and burned. All the 
famous soldiers of Mars whom I have mentioned 
were big burglars and butchers. The world is not 



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likely to forget them, but it is impossible for the 
world ever to love them. 

Only soldiers of the Prince are loved after they 
are dead. Like the soldiers of Mars they do not stay 
at home, but when they go abroad it is only to do 
good. They do not go to get but to give, not to gain 
power but to serve, not to have a comfortable time 
but to win glory for the Prince. Paul could not stay 
at Tarsus. When he met the Prince he felt he had 
gained something which he owed to all the world. 
He could not stay even in Asia. One night in his 
sleep he seemed to hear a man in Europe calling to 
him again and again: "Come over and help us!" 
Patrick could not stay in France, and Columba could 
not stay in Ireland, and Augustine could not stay in 
Italy, and Boniface could not stay in England. They 
all had to go among strangers because these strang- 
ers needed them. The soldiers of the Prince pay no 
attention to boundary lines: they step right over 
them as though they did not exist. Warriors of 
Mars drive nations apart, whereas the soldiers of the 
Prince knit nations together. 

Soldiers with guns cannot be called world con- 
querors. They make a great stir and seem to be 
subduing the world, but their work does not last. 
The empire of hate soon crumbles : only the empire 
of love endures. Soldiers of Mars destroy. It is not 
difficult to do that. Babies can do it, and bulldogs, 
and monkeys, and savages who do not wear clothes. 
The soldiers of the Prince build. They build the city 
of God. Its foundations can never be shaken. The 
nations are going to walk amidst the light of it, and 




Copyright, Wiele & Klein, Madras, India. 

A small soldier in India. 

He has fought sickness and poverty, and rides to victory on this prancing steed. 
Don't shoot him — Feed him 



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the Kings of the earth are going to bring their glory 
into it. Of its beauty and dominion and power there 
can be no end. 



QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER FOUR 

1. Prove that Paul had the world in his eye. 

2. Where is the island of Lilliput? Why does the author 
mention it? 

3. Look in the dictionary for the words Goth and Hun. What 
do you find? 

4. Make a list of the heroes mentioned and divide them into 
two groups. What different title do you choose for each group? 

5. Explain the words— pagan, pigmy, Tartar, Mongol. 

6. What three difficult things did Ulfilas accomplish? 

7. In what ways was Columba a soldier? 

8. Why is English history different because Augustine went 
to England? 

9. What happened because St. Patrick carried Ireland in his 
eye? 

10. Why was Winfried called Boniface? How did he earn 
the name? 



From 

The Arsenal at Springfield 

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, 
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, 

Given to redeem the human mind from error, 
There were no need of arsenals nor forts; 

The warrior's name would be a name abhorred; 

And every nation that should lift again 
Its hand against a brother, on its forehead 

Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain! 



Down the dark future, through long generations, 
The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; 

And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, 
I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace!" 

Peace! — and no longer from its brazen portals 
The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies; 

But, beautiful as songs of the immortals, 
The holy melodies of love arise. 

Henry W. Longfellow 



Soldiers of Yesterday 
v. 

BY yesterday I mean the nineteenth century. It 
has been called "the wonderful century" and 
that is a good name for it. It was wonderful 
in many ways and for many reasons, and one of the 
reasons is the remarkable record of heroic deeds 
which was made by the soldiers of the Prince. They 
went everywhere. It was the first century in which 
it was possible to travel swiftly and with ease. 
There was no part of the whole world which was 
not visited by the Prince's soldiers in the wonderful 
century. It was the first time in the history of the 
world when the doors were all open. At the begin- 
ning of the century many doors were closed. They 
were locked and barred and nobody could get in. 
But when the century closed, every door was open. 
The Prince's soldiers had knocked so long and so 
patiently that every door had swung on its hinges, 
and there was no continent or island into which they 
could not go. The Prince one day said to his sol- 
diers: "Knock and it shall be opened unto you." 
His promise was marvelously fulfilled yesterday. 
The world has now become one big house, and we 
can pass from one room to another without delay. 
The soldiers of the Prince had a lot to do with bring- 
ing this to pass. 

Some people think that to find anything really ex- 



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citing you must go back thousands of years. They 
imagine that all the heroes died long ago. Every 
boy likes to read of Hercules, the most famous hero 
of the ancient world. According to report he did the 
most amazing things. He strangled a lion with his 
own hands, he killed a monster that had nine heads, 
he caught a stag with nine antlers and brazen feet, 
he caught a boar in a net and carried him for miles 
to a city, he cleaned the stables of the king of Elis, 
he fetched the golden apples of the Hesperides, and 
brought Cerberus from the lower world. These are 
only a few of the extraordinary things he is reported 
to have done. But the soldiers of the Prince have 
done things fully as remarkable and far more useful, 
and they did many of them yesterday. 

If is often supposed that if you want to read about 
things which will make your heart jump you must 
read books about war. In war men often show won- 
derful daring, it is true, and we cannot read of these 
deeds without feeling a thrill in the blood, but books 
about the soldiers of the Prince are just as exciting 
as war books, and the courage of the Prince's sol- 
diers is not a bit less than the heroism of the soldiers 
of Mars. It was only day before yesterday that 
North America was explored. It was a wild and un- 
known continent, filled with dangerous beasts and 
dangerous men. But soldiers of the Prince plunged 
into the great forests, afraid neither of the beasts 
nor the men, and in order to find out how America 
came to be known to the world you must read where 
three soldiers went and what they did. I shall men- 
tion just one of them — Jean de Brebeuf — a man who 



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was as brave as Hercules. Generals have made them- 
selves famous by long marches, but no general ever 
made a more difficult march than Brebeuf's march of 
nine hundred miles up the Ottawa river into the 
frozen north. Soldiers have met death without 
flinching on the field of battle, but no soldier ever 
met on the field of battle such a hideous death as that 
of Jean de Brebeuf. The Indians caught him and 
tortured him. They cut off his lips, and burned 
with red hot irons his mangled mouth, and hung hot 
hatchets round his neck, and cut off his scalp while 
he was yet alive, but he never murmured, and like 
the Prince he prayed while he was dying — "Father, 
forgive them." 

It was only yesterday that the big continent of 
Africa was opened to the rest of the world. It was 
opened by soldiers of the Prince. It has been called 
the Dark Continent, and it certainly deserved the 
name. The people of Africa had dark skins but their 
minds were darker than their bodies. It was a dark 
continent because it was unknown. No white man 
knew about its lakes and its rivers, its forests and 
its mountains. White men sailed round the edges 
of it, but they dared not venture into the interior. 
In the interior were venomous serpents, and poison- 
ous flies, and ferocious wild beasts, and deadly 
fevers, and because of all these enemies, white men 
allowed Central Africa to remain unknown. But by 
and by a soldier of the Prince — David Livingstone — 
arrived on the coast of Africa and plunged into the 
interior. His friends begged him not to go but he 
refused to listen to them. Almost at the start he 



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was attacked by a lion. The beast sprang upon his 
shoulder sinking eleven of its teeth in his flesh, 
crushing a bone into splinters, but Livingstone 
escaped and the lion was shot. One day he said to 
a chief on the edge of a desert that he wanted to 
carry the gospel to regions beyond. The chief told 
him that the desert could not be crossed because it 
was impossible even for black men to cross it except 
in certain seasons. But Livingstone was never 
daunted by the impossible. He remembered that the 
Prince had said that with God all things are possi- 
ble. His journey across Africa was the most won- 
derful journey made by any man in the nineteenth 
century. Think of traveling two thousand miles 
through an unknown country in the midst of wild 
beasts and fevers and savages! Livingstone kept a 
journal every day, and American boys and girls 
ought to read it. No one can read it without being 
braver. 

At one time Livingstone had not been heard from 
for so long that all his friends in England and Amer- 
ica became alarmed. At last a newspaper reporter 
was sent out to find him. Think of trying to find a 
man in a big continent like Africa! The attempt 
was made and it succeeded. Livingstone was found. 
The newspaper reporter was so impressed by him 
that he became a different man. He changed his 
ideas completely of the soldiers of the Prince. You 
will be glad to know that the black men of Africa 
did not kill Livingstone. It was a cruel African 
fever which at last took his life. He kept on travel- 
ing, no matter how sick he was, and one morning 



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when a black servant went into his tent he found 
Livingstone kneeling at the side of his bed, with 
his head buried in his hands upon the pillow, dead! 
He had gone out of this world praying. The black 
men who had traveled with him cut out his heart 
and buried it at the foot of a big tree, and some of 
them then bound up his body and carried it more 
than a thousand miles to the coast whence it was 
sent to England, where it now lies among the great 
men of the British Empire in Westminster Abbey. 
When you go to London you will not fail to visit 
Livingstone's grave. On the stone they have in- 
scribed a sentence which he wrote at the end of his 
life in Central Africa : "All I can say in my solitude 
is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on every 
one — American, English, Turk — who will help to 
heal the open sore of the world." 

Livingstone fought slavery. That to him was the 
open sore of the world. Scores of other brave sol- 
diers of the Prince have fought African slavery, and 
the diabolical institution has almost completely 
passed away. It is hard to believe that human be- 
ings can be so heartless and cruel as these black 
men of Africa were before the soldiers of the Prince 
found them. Their kings thought nothing of burn- 
ing their subjects alive, or cutting off their hands 
and their feet, or burying sick people alive, or killing 
women just because their husbands had died. To 
put an end to such abominations and atrocities, is 
both difficult and dangerous, just as risky as it is 
to march up in front of a howitzer, or to live in a 
submarine. The first great soldier of the Prince — 



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Paul — once said to some of his friends who had 
been giving him reasons for not running the risk of 
losing his life: "None of these things move me, 
neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I 
may accomplish my course." That is the way all 
brave soldiers feel. They do not count their life 
dear. They are ready to give it up for others. 

I have not time to tell you about all the soldiers 
who have laid down their life for Africa. The fact 
that soldiers are killed never keeps other soldiers 
from volunteering. In 1878 there were two soldiers 
of the Prince murdered in Central Africa, and the 
report of their death was published in the English 
newspapers. An Englishman about thirty years 
old — James Hannington — read the report, and it 
made him long to go to Africa to take the place of 
one of the two soldiers who had fallen. Four years 
later he was permitted to go, but his health broke 
down and he had to return to England. As soon as 
he got well again, he started for Africa. He knew 
all about the forest fevers and the game traps and 
the robbers and tsetse flies, and the cobras and the 
lions, and none of these made him afraid. When 
he reached the country of Uganda the chief of that 
country seized him, and a week later he and all his 
companions were put to death. He went to the place 
of execution singing. 

But Africa is not the only dark continent. All 
continents are dark until the ideas of the Prince are 
carried there. He is the light of the world, and until 
he is known men live in darkness. China is one of 
the oldest of all countries. Nobody knows just how 




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She rescued her doll. 

It was damaged in the siege of Antwerp, but is dear to her heart 



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old China is. Men have been working and thinking 
and studying there for thousands of years, and yet 
it is a country of great darkness. People are ignor- 
ant of the very simplest things. They do not know 
anything about the human body, or how to cure 
any of the body's diseases. How would you like to 
live in a country where they grind up snakes and 
wasps and centipedes and scorpions and toads and 
mix them with honey and roll them into pills which 
you must take four times a day? How would you 
like to have a doctor who thinks that he ought to 
stick a needle into you in order to let out the disease? 
There are Chinese doctors who think there are three 
hundred and sixty places in the body where needles 
can be stuck in with safety, and one of these places 
is round the eyes. How would you like to take 
ground up tiger's bones in order to make you strong? 
Would it not be distressing to live in a country 
where people believe that diseases are caused by 
evil spirits, and that these evil spirits must be driven 
out by charms and incantations? But China is no 
worse than India, and India is no worse than many 
another country. It is only where men know about 
the Prince that the body is understood, and that 
pain can be lessened. The nations which try to obey 
the Prince receive many blessings, and one of the 
greatest of them all is a knowledge of medicine and 
surgery. Of course these blessings are not for our- 
selves alone. They are given to us that we may pass 
them on to others. All men and women are brothers 
and sisters, and they must be willing to share every 
good thing which comes to them. All the nations 



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are members of one big family, and if one member 
of the family knows something very important it 
must tell it to all the rest. 

Whenever you hear of a medical missionary, re- 
member that he is one of the bravest of all the sol- 
diers of the Prince. He is going out to fight some- 
thing far more dangerous than the lion which Her- 
cules strangled. He is going to fight a microbe. 
His labor is far more dangerous than that of slaugh- 
tering a monster, for it is his work to conquer a 
bacillus. In the early days men had to fight giants 
and huge monsters, but now they have to fight 
enemies so small you cannot see them even with a 
microscope. It is these tiny enemies which cause 
most mischief on the earth. Attila killed thousands 
of human beings, but there are microbes which have 
killed hundreds of thousands. Napoleon killed mil- 
lions but there are bacilli which have killed tens of 
millions. The soldiers of the Prince are enlisted for 
the purpose of fighting physical disease. The Prince 
himself cured men's bodies as well as their minds. 
His soldiers must do the same. 

Can you think of a war so glorious as the war 
against disease? Look at those Generals who must 
be crushed — General Bubonic Plague, General Chol- 
era, General Leprosy, General Tuberculosis, and a 
hundred other Generals whose soldiers torment and 
torture our poor helpless human race. When God 
makes out the roll of his greatest heroes, I am sure 
that Attila and Tamerlane and Napoleon will not 
stand at the head of the list. I think that the most 
prominent names will be soldiers of the Prince, men 



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like John Kenneth MacKenzie, who having saved 
the lives of thousands in China by his medical skill 
was finally killed at the age of thirty-eight by small- 
pox. 

Everybody is today proud of the courage of the 
soldiers of Belgium. The men who fought and died 
at Liege and Namur will never be forgotten. We 
should not forget either the name of another Belgian 
soldier — Father Damien — who died a few years ago 
on one of the Hawaiian islands. Father Damien 
was a soldier of the Prince, tall and strong and fine. 
When a young man he decided to leave Belgium 
and go to Hawaii on an errand for the Prince. After 
living there a short time, he heard of an island near 
by on which lepers were kept. No leper was allowed 
to live on any other island than this. State officers 
went from island to island looking for lepers, and 
whenever they found one they hustled him to this 
leper island. The husband had to leave his wife, 
the wife her husband, the mother her child, the 
brother his sister. It was a miserable, forlorn, hope- 
less crowd of people who lived on the leper island. 
Nobody cared for them. Everybody was afraid of 
them. They had not a friend in all the world. One 
day Father Damien said to his Bishop : "I am ready 
to bury myself alive among the lepers of Molokai." 
And he did. For sixteen years he lived there. What 
a brave fight that was! At last he became a leper 
himself. He died a leper. He shut with his own 
hand — as Robert Louis Stevenson said — the door of 
his own sepulcher. There are many other mission- 



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aries as brave as he working today for the lepers 
in India and China and Japan. 

There was another pest house in which a brave 
soldier shut himself up to die. This pest house was 
at Mukden. Five hundred Chinese coolies were 
working in the bean fields of Manchuria when a pes- 
tilence broke out and the men were obliged to start 
for their homes in South China. The Pneumonic 
plague broke out among them while they were on 
their way and they were stopped near Mukden and 
huddled into five small buildings. There was near 
there a young doctor, A. F. Jackson — who volun- 
teered to go into quarantine with them. He was the 
only white man there. Eighty of the coolies died, 
and then Dr. Jackson himself died. He laid down 
his life for others. Men who go into the trenches 
in time of war are counted brave, and so they are. 
So also are the soldiers of the Prince who go into 
the chambers of sickness and death and sacrifice 
their life not for their country but for humanity and 
the Prince. 

Besides the great continents there are small bodies 
of land called islands, and these also are the home of 
human beings. On some islands men and women 
sank so low that they became cannibals, that is they 
ate their enemies after they had killed them. Of all 
the savage islanders in the world none were worse, 
they say, than those on the Fiji islands. If you will 
look at the map you will find those islands in the 
South Pacific over one thousand miles north of New 
Zealand. While you are looking at them it would be 
well for you to notice how many islands there are in 



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the South Pacific. I am sure there are more of them 
than you ever imagined. You cannot afford to re- 
main ignorant of those islands, for upon many of 
them have lived and died some of the bravest men 
and women whom the world has ever known. A 
man can live a great life on a small island. Never 
get discouraged because you do not have a large 
sphere. Remember that the Prince one day told a 
story about some men who because they were faith- 
ful in doing what they had a chance to do found 
themselves at last to their great surprise rulers over 
great cities. Of all these South Pacific islands, none 
are more beautiful than the Fiji islands, and none 
were inhabited by a worse set of people. They were 
abominably brutal. Men sometimes murdered their 
relatives in order to eat them. The man who got the 
highest reputation was the man who had eaten the 
largest number of his fellow men. Men were often 
buried alive. When a chief died his wives were 
strangled and buried beside him. Babies were taught 
to strike their mothers in order to teach them to be 
brave. Boys and girls were tied to trees in order 
that men might throw spears and knives at them, to 
see how close they could come to their head. How 
would you like to go to an island thousands of miles 
from your home peopled by human beings like that? 
Nobody but a soldier of the Prince is brave enough 
to do such a thing. A soldier of Mars can take a gun 
with him, and savages are afraid of a gun, but a sol- 
dier of the Prince carries nothing in his hand but a 
Bible, and what can a man do with a Bible among 
a lot of murderous cannibals? Let me tell you what 



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James Calvert and his wife did. They heard of these 
savages and of the abominable things that they did, 
and so they decided that they would pick out 
twenty-five of the islands and tell their inhabitants 
about the Prince. Not at all afraid they landed on 
one of the islands and began to work. Of course the 
work was discouraging and Mr. and Mrs. Calvert 
risked their lives every day, but they never retreated, 
and by and by they succeeded in winning the heart 
of the old King Tanoa, one of the most ferocious 
maneaters who ever lived. It took seventeen years 
more to win his cruel and stubborn son, and when 
this son became a soldier of the Prince, he handed 
his old war club to the British Envoy, and some of 
you, I hope, will some day look at it when you visit 
the British Museum in London. Do you think that 
Alexander or Caesar or Napoleon ever had a soldier 
braver than James Calvert and his wife? The first 
thing they did on landing at their new home was to 
gather up and bury the skulls and hands and feet of 
eighty men and women who had been eaten at a 
recent feast. Nearly every day for a long time they 
saw sights which froze the blood. A thousand times 
there was only a short step between them and death, 
but the Prince always shielded them, and before they 
left the islands, there were on them hundreds of 
churches and Sunday Schools, filled with happy and 
obedient soldiers of the Prince. 

Before we leave the South Pacific, I must ask you 
to look on the map again and see those dots of land 
between the Fiji islands and Australia. They are 
worth looking at a long time. Most of them are 



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little, but mighty deeds have been done upon them, 
and heroic souls have gone up to God from every one 
of them. Look at Erromanga. That is where John 
Williams was clubbed to death by savages in 1839. 
Now look at the little island called Tanna. On 
that island there landed in 1859 John G. Paton and 
his wife. Do not forget that women are just as 
brave as men. They are willing to go anywhere 
that a man is ready to go, and a man is ready to go 
when and where the Prince sends him. Some day 
you will want to read the autobiography of John G. 
Paton. You should not read it if you do not want 
to cry, and if you object to having your hair stand 
on end. If you want to find a novel more exciting 
than the life of Paton you must seek a long time. 
Soldiers of the Prince had never visited Tanna be- 
fore Paton and his wife arrived there. The natives 
were fierce savages. On the very first night, six 
men were cooked and eaten not far from where 
Paton and his wife slept. On the next night they 
heard the wild cry of a widow who was being 
strangled to death that she might accompany her 
dead husband into the other world. In a few months 
Mrs. Paton died, and then their little baby died, and 
Mr. Paton was left alone on that awful island. He 
had to dig a grave with his own hands, and there 
were no sympathizing friends to attend the funeral. 
After some months he was greatly cheered by the 
arrival of two other missionaries, Mr. Johnstone and 
his wife. But one night two savages tried to kill Mr. 
Johnstone, and in three weeks he was dead. Mr. 
Paton had to make the coffin and dig the grave. 



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One day a band of savages came over from Erro- 
manga announcing that they had killed Mr. and Mrs. 
Gordon who had come to tell them about the Prince, 
and urging the men of Tanna to treat Mr. Paton in 
the same way. Just at this time a British warship 
sailed into the harbor at Tanna, and the Commo- 
dore urged Mr. Paton to leave the island at once. 
Mr. Paton said, No. He had worked more than three 
years for these savages and he was not willing to 
leave them yet. They were all the time trying to 
kill him, and yet he loved them and was always talk- 
ing to God about them. 

But in the end he was obliged to go. The savages 
became worse and worse, and one night they burned 
down the little church, and would have burned down 
the mission house too, had not a fearful rain storm 
arrived at just the right moment, and put the fire 
out. "This is Jehovah's rain," cried the savages in 
panic, and suddenly they disappeared into the dark- 
ness. 

Mr. Paton was now compelled to leave Tanna, 
but he did not go back to Scotland. He went to an- 
other island, Aniwa, where he won amazing victories 
for the Prince which every boy and girl in the world 
should read. Mr. Paton had hundreds of hairbreadth 
escapes, and was permitted to live to be an old man, 
dying in Australia at the age of eighty-three. Why 
Mr. Gordon was killed and Mr. Paton was not killed, 
is one of those secrets which the Prince keeps to 
himself. 

Of all the bad customs in the world none is worse 
than the custom of fighting. It is a universal cus- 



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torn, and started so long ago that nobody can find 
out just when it began. Savages fight more than 
any other kind of men because they have the least 
sense. The nearer a man is to the animals the more 
he likes to fight. When he gets as low down as a 
hyena or a wild cat he wants to fight all the time. 
One of the great tasks of the soldiers of the Prince 
is to induce men to stop fighting. When men fight 
only a part of the time they are called barbarians, 
and when they fight only now and then they are 
called civilized. When they become truly christian 
they will not fight at all. Nations which are con- 
trolled by the spirit of the Prince do not make war, 
nor do they get ready for war, nor do they think 
about war. There are certain things which are so 
bad that we ought not to think about them at all. 
War is one of them. It is like cannibalism, and slav- 
ery, and widow strangling, and other vile things 
which every soldier of the Prince must hate with all 
his heart. Boys and girls should abhor it, and they 
are certain to detest it just in proportion as they un- 
derstand the mind of the Prince. He was kind and 
gentle, and if we are to be christians we must be like 
him. When nations fight it is because one or more 
of them are not ruled by the spirit of the Prince. 
The Indian chieftains were always proud of their 
clubs. That is because they were Indians. The Fiji 
islanders were also proud of their clubs. That was 
because they were savages. Big armies and big 
navies are nothing but big clubs, and when nations 
become really acquainted with the Prince they will 



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throw away their clubs, and spend their money in 
making people good and happy. 

One of the most notable traits of the Prince was 
his attitude to women. He always spoke of them 
with chivalric respect, and stood up for them when 
they were treated unfairly. While he was on the 
earth, women did for him and his cause all that they 
could, and ever since he went away, they have stood 
side by side with men in fighting pain and falsehood 
and wrong. The army of the Prince is the one army 
in which men and women have equal privileges and 
honors. 

I do not know what Adoniram Judson would have 
been able to do in Burmah had not a New England 
girl — Anne Hasseltine — been willing to go with him 
as his wife, or what Robert Moffat could have ac- 
complished in South Africa without Mrs. Moffat, or 
how James Chalmers could have succeeded in New 
Guinea without Mrs. Chalmers, or how James Cal- 
vert could have gotten through the horrible expe- 
riences in Fiji without his wife, or how John G. 
Paton could have won his victories in the New Heb- 
rides without the assistance of Mrs. Paton. It is 
brave women who with their husbands have estab- 
lished christian homes in non-christian lands, and it 
is through the refinement and beauty of these homes 
that the Prince has been able to reach the heart of 
great empires which did not know him. 

But women are able to fight for the Prince alone. 
I have read of widows who carried on the work of 
their husband for ten and twenty and even thirty 
years after their husband was dead. Some women 



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never marry at all, and fight the battles of the Prince 
without the help of a husband's love and care. 

Melinda Rankin never married. When only a girl 
she dreamed of doing something extraordinary for 
the Prince. For a long time there was nothing 
extraordinary which she could do, and so, like a sen- 
sible girl, she did things that were ordinary, such as 
teaching district school, and conducting a class in 
the Sunday School. When she was twenty-nine 
years old, a call came for soldiers to fight for the 
Prince in the Mississippi valley. It was in the year 
1840, and the Mississippi valley was at that time 
much farther from New England than it is now, but 
Melinda Rankin cared nothing for distance, or hard- 
ship, and so she said goodbye to her friends, and 
went to tell people first in Kentucky and then in 
Mississippi about the Prince. It was while teaching 
in the latter state, that she heard of the awful need in 
Mexico, and she immediately decided to go thither. 
The doors into Mexico however were all closed, and 
so she got as close to Mexico as she could. She 
opened a school in a town on the American side of 
the Rio Grande. It was not a large school. It 
started with just five Mexican children, and all these 
were girls, but the school grew, and the teacher was 
happy. She was not permitted to cross the river, 
but she could send Bibles across, and so every Mexi- 
can she met, carried a Bible home with him in his 
pocket. Like all good soldiers she did what she 
could. By and by she was permitted to open a 
school on Mexican soil. Of course she was perse- 
cuted all the time, and once she was compelled to 



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return to the United States, but at the first oppor- 
tunity she went back to Mexico again. In spite of 
numberless difficulties and discouragements, she 
kept on working until she was over sixty years old, 
and then her health breaking down she came back 
to her own country to die. She is famous as the 
first Protestant missionary in Mexico. 

And now let me tell you about an Iowa girl — 
Eleanor Chesnut. When a little girl she was very 
poor, for her mother was dead and nobody knew 
where her father was, and she lived with an aunt in 
the backwoods in Missouri. It was here that she 
heard of a college, and although she had no money 
and no influential friends she decided to knock at the 
college door. She was admitted. Later on she be- 
came a christian. A little later she decided to go as 
a soldier of the Prince to the distant East. She 
wanted to study medicine. She had no money and 
no friends to assist her, but she went forward. She 
lived in an attic, cooked her own meals, and a part 
of the time nearly starved. But nothing could daunt 
her. She completed her course in medicine, took a 
course in nursing, and then a course in a Bible Insti- 
tute. In summer vacations she worked as a nurse. 
She nursed Oliver Wendell Holmes in his last illness. 
At twenty-four she sailed for South China. On ar- 
riving she found herself face to face with many prob- 
lems. They did not abash her. She converted her 
bathroom into an operating room until she could get 
a little hospital building erected. She loved sick 
people. To heal them was her joy. For twelve 
years she had this joy, and then a horrible thing hap- 



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pened. A mob of ruffians decided they would put an 
end to the Prince's work in China. They seized Dr. 
Chesnut, dragged her to the river, threw her in, and 
then one of the villains jumped in and stabbed her 
three times. Shortly before the end she was allowed 
to sit for a moment or two at the foot of a tree, and 
while there, she noticed a boy in the crowd with an 
ugly gash in his head. Calling him to her she tore 
off the hem of her dress and bound up his wound. 
That is the last thing she did on earth. She saved 
others, but herself she could not save. She was like 
the Prince. 

A long time ago a man began to write a list of the 
people who had done wonderful things, and after he 
had mentioned a few, he became discouraged and 
said that the time would fail him to tell even of some 
of the very greatest heroes and heroines who ever 
lived. I should love to tell you of Sara C. Seward, 
and Sarah F. Norris, and Caroline H. Daniels, and 
Meta Howard, and Fanny J. Butler, and Isabella 
Thoburn, and Charlotte Tucker, and a hundred 
others, but you must read all about them for your- 
selves. 

I can tell you about only one woman more. You 
will not forget her because she has such a peculiar 
name — Kapiolani. She lived in Hawaii, and was the 
ruler of the district around Kilauea, one of the 
world's most famous volcanoes. The crater is a big 
hole in the top of a high mountain. The hole is 
eight miles around and nearly one thousand feet 
deep. In the middle of the hole is a lake of melted 
lava always burning. A famous fire goddess — Pele 



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— was supposed to dwell in this region. All the 
people were afraid of her and worshiped her and 
gave her costly presents. Now Kapiolani was a sav- 
age, ignorant and superstitious and bad. One day 
she heard about the Prince, and decided to be one of 
his soldiers. She began at once to tell her people 
about the God of love, but they would not listen to 
her for they were afraid of Pele. She then did this : 
She walked up to the top of the mountain, taking 
eighty of her subjects with her, and right down into 
the crater, and close up to the lake of fire, and threw 
stones into the fire, just to prove that she was not 
afraid of Pele. As she threw the stones she kept 
saying: "]ehovah is my God! He kindled these 
fires. I fear not Pele." The people all thought that 
the earth would open and swallow up Kapiolani, or 
that Pele would spurt burning lava over her, but 
Pele did nothing of the sort, for there was no such 
goddess as Pele, and so all the people decided to be- 
come worshipers of the Father of Jesus. Nobody 
knows what one girl or one woman can acomplish if 
she only gives her heart to the Prince. 



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QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER FIVE 

1. Give the dates for the nineteenth century. Why has it 
been called "the wonderful century"? 

2. How has the world ' 'become one big house"? 

3. What dangers does a soldier of the Prince meet when he 
explores a new country? 

4. Who was the soldier of the Prince who fought against 
African slavery? What weapons did he use? 

5. Name some of the strange ideas about our bodies believed 
by ignorant people. 

6. Why is a microbe more dangerous to fight than a lion? 

7. Name some of the great battles in the War against Disease. 

8. Where is the island of Molokai? Who lived on the island? 

9. Describe a real savage. 

10. Name three soldiers of the Prince who lost their lives in 
the South Sea Islands. 



'Tor I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, 
Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be. 
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, 
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. 

"Heard the heavens fill with shouting and there rained a ghostly 

dew 
From the Nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue: 
Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind rushing 

warm, 
With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder- 
storm, 

"Till the war-drum throbbed no longer and the battle-flags were 

furled 
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the World. 
Then the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, 
And the kindly earth shall slumber lapt in universal law/' 

Alfred Tennyson 



A Prayer for Peace 

Unto Thee, O Lord, we cry in the night of the world's darkness 
for the coming of the dawn of peace. Is not the earth Thine? 
Are not the hearts of all men in Thy keeping? Remember the 
desolated homes, the long suspense of waiting, the sorrows of the 
exiled and the poor, the growth of hate, the hindrance of good, 
and make an end of war. By the love we bear toward fathers, 
brothers, lovers, sons; by the long agony of trench and battle- 
field and hospital; by the woe brought home to the hearts of 
mothers, and by the orphaned children's need — hasten Thou 
the coming of the ages of good will. Raise up leaders for the 
work of peace. Show us our part in this redemption of the 
world from cruelty and hate and make us faithful and courageous. 
In the name of Christ, whose kingdom is our hearts' desire and 
whose will for men is love. Amen. 



What Boys and Girls Can Do For 
the Empire of Love 

VI. 

YOU may call it an Empire or a Kingdom or a 
Republic, but they all mean the same thing 
— a society in which everybody will be con- 
trolled by the spirit of good-will. The first famous 
soldier of the Prince liked to think and talk about 
the Kingdom of God, and he said this means right- 
eousness and peace and joy. A society in which 
everybody is fair, and nobody does anybody else an 
injustice, that comes first. Unless you have justice 
you cannot get peace. Just so long as men are un- 
just to one another, just so long will there be hard 
feelings and quarreling. But if you can establish 
justice, then you can have peace, and if you obtain 
peace then joy comes also. But you cannot have joy 
without peace, just as you cannot have peace with- 
out justice. If you get the first you get the second, 
and if you get the second you get the third. 

Now the way to get justice is to get a loving heart 
— a heart like the heart of the Prince. When our 
heart is full of good-will we do not want to wrong 
anybody. We want to do to each person as we 
should like to have that person do to us. That is the 
kind of disposition which the Prince likes to see in 
all his followers. When we act that way, we are 
said to keep the "Golden Rule." The Prince was 



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always loving, and hence he was always just, and 
being just, he never threw stones or used a sword, 
and having always a peace-loving and tranquil heart, 
he had a happiness which was so wonderful that his 
followers could not understand it. Even when 
wicked men had decided to nail him to a cross, he 
did not become gloomy, but his heart continued to 
sing, and he promised to give his soldiers the very 
same kind of joy which he himself had. 

And so we may say that the Prince came into the 
world to establish the reign of love, and that his sol- 
diers are enlisted in a long campaign, the object of 
which is to extend the practice of justice, and the 
blessings of peace and joy. What can boys and girls 
do in this great campaign? 

At first it might seem that they can do nothing at 
all. In the first place, they must stay at home. That 
is where boys and girls are supposed to belong, and 
it is not permitted them to go out of their own town. 
In the second place, they are not old enough to do 
important things which big folks are able to do. 
They cannot make speeches or write for the maga- 
zines and papers. They cannot talk to a congress- 
man or a member of the President's cabinet. No- 
body seems to care what boys and girls think, nor 
does the world pay attention to what they say. They 
can do a few chores around the house, and they can 
study their lessons at school, but beyond this what 
is it possible for them to do? The case seems to be 
hopeless. 

But we must not come to conclusions too quickly. 
Situations are not always so dark as they look. 



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There is a boy mentioned in the Old Testament who 
once had nothing but a sling and a few pebbles, and 
all the men felt sure that he could do nothing for his 
country. But he did. In the New Testament we are 
told of a boy who had nothing in his basket but two 
sardines and a handful of crackers. Nobody knew 
that this boy was in the crowd, but when by and by 
the Prince wanted to accomplish one of his big 
works, this boy gave him the very assistance which 
he needed. We must never get discouraged because 
we are little, and because it seems that there is noth- 
ing important which we are able to do. If we only 
use what we have, there is no telling what the Prince 
may be able to do through us. 

War is one of the mightiest enemies which the 
Prince has ever fought. It is the Goliath who has 
strutted up and down the lands defying everybody 
and bragging. Men have fought him with all kinds 
of weapons, but thus far they have failed to kill him. 
Possibly the tallest and strongest of all the giants 
will finally be overthrown by the boys and the girls. 
The Prince one day said that there were things which 
are hidden from the wise and prudent — I think he 
must have meant the big folks who think they know 
everything — and are revealed to babies. By babies 
I have no doubt he meant humble-minded human 
beings who realize that they are weak and ignorant, 
but are willing that God shall use them in carrying 
out his plans. The Prince was one day greatly 
cheered by some boys who sang for him in the Tem- 
ple. He is always glad to have boys and girls stand 



104 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

up for him, and let the world know that they are on 
his side. 

Here then is the first thing that they can do for 
world-peace. They can enlist in the army of the 
Prince. They can let everybody know that they are 
on his side. They can sing hymns of praise to him 
in the church, and can fight for him in the school and 
on the playground. They must fight for him first 
in their own hearts. Everything in this world be- 
gins in the heart. That then is the first fort to be 
captured. If this fort is in the possession of hateful 
feelings and spiteful thoughts, these must be driven 
out. Only a friendly disposition must be permitted 
to make its home in the heart. Each one must culti- 
vate a neighborly feeling. Every day a little time 
must be given to feeding the feelings of friendliness 
and good-will. So long as we have a quarrelsome 
disposition, we can never fight successfully on the 
side of the Prince. Our own heart must be con- 
quered before we can hope to conquer the hearts of 
others. 

If our own heart is friendly and sweet, we can go 
out and kill feelings which are hateful and bitter. 
Some boys like to go out into the woods to kill 
snakes, and others like to hunt for gypsy moths. It 
is far more fun to hunt for grudges and quarrels and 
drive them out of the town. In every town there are 
dozens of bitter feelings, and scores of hateful criti- 
cisms among the boys and girls, and upon these the 
soldiers of the Prince ought to make war. Some 
boys and girls like to stir up trouble. If two boys are 
threatening to fight, other boys will stand by and 



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cheer them on. They want to see them fight. No 
good soldiers of the Prince ever want to see a fight. 
If one girl does not like another girl, some of her 
friends are likely to tell her all the mean things they 
can hear, and in this way push the two girls farther 
apart. When they do this they are not loyal to the 
Prince. The soldiers of the Prince are peacemakers. 
Their business is to bring human hearts together. 
They wage war on all suspicions, and misunder- 
standings, and insulting words, and backbiting, and 
talking, and spying, for these are the enemies of 
peace and good-will, and it is only by hard fighting 
that they can be overcome. But to do this kind of 
fighting you must have a disposition that is friendly 
and gentle, for we cannot give to others what we 
ourselves do not possess. Having caught the spirit 
of the Prince, we are able to give it to those around 
us. This is the kind of work which boys and girls 
can do, and there is no more important work in all 
the world. Boys and girls cannot do the work which 
is reported in the papers. They cannot call Hague 
Conferences, or build Peace Palaces, or adopt Peace 
Resolutions, or sign Peace Treaties or frame Arbi- 
tration Policies, but these things are not so impor- 
tant after all as the spirit of the Prince. For unless 
men have the spirit of the Prince, then all the arbi- 
tration treaties and Hague Conferences and Peace 
Palaces amount to little. So long as men have the 
spirit of Mars, they will fight even on the front steps 
of the Palace of Peace* If they do not have the dis- 
position of the Prince, they will, when they get ex- 
cited, trample all these arbitration treaties under 



106 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

their feet. The most important work to be done in 
this world is the creation of the spirit of good-will, 
and the spreading of it through the hearts of larger 
numbers of people. Without this spirit, then every- 
thing else is useless. Now boys and girls can do this 
indispensable work as well as anybody else. They 
can radiate good feeling wherever they go, and scat- 
ter kind words, and sow beautiful ideas, and in this 
way lay the foundations of world-wide peace. Those 
who work on the foundations of a big building are 
not seen by so many people as are the men who work 
on the tower or the steeple, but without this work 
on the foundation, we could never have either steeple 
or tower. We can never have a glorious Empire of 
Love unless boys and girls lay the foundations. 
Every boy and girl lives in a little world of his own. 
The big world is made up of millions of little worlds. 
The way to make the big world what it ought to be 
is to begin with the little worlds. When the little 
worlds are filled with good-will, then the big world 
will enjoy everlasting peace. Every boy and girl 
can contribute a little world which has been brought 
under the dominion of the Prince. 

You have all heard of race prejudice. It is one of 
the most mischievous of all the demons. It is a 
feeling of dislike and contempt for people who do 
not belong to our race. When we dislike people we 
cannot think of them fairly, and we cannot treat 
them kindly. Race prejudice gets one into the stupid 
notion that all other races are inferior to his own, 
and fastens upon him the silly idea that other races 
do not have the same rights which his own race en- 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 107 

joys. There are millions of grown men and women 
so bigoted and conceited that they look down on men 
and women of a different color who were born under 
a different flag. They feel this way because when 
they were boys and girls they allowed race prejudice 
to spin a web around their heart. Always think of 
race prejudice as a huge spider catching human be- 
ings in its web, and killing in them all those feelings 
of friendliness and good-will which the Prince loves 
to see. If the spider catches a boy it is hard for him 
to get out. Did you ever watch a fly trying to escape 
from a spider's web? Poor fly, what an awful time 
it has ! The web was made of very delicate threads, 
but the fly was not able to break them and never got 
free again. The feelings of race prejudice are so 
slender at first that many persons do not know how 
strong and dangerous they are. One of the first 
enemies for a boy and girl to fight is this feeling of 
superiority toward boys and girls of other races. 
Whenever you notice that feeling springing up in 
your heart, attack it at once. Race prejudice gets 
into the world through the hearts of boys and girls, 
and if it is ever to be kept out it will be through their 
determined and heroic action. When American boys 
and girls laugh at Italian and Russian boys and girls, 
or make fun of boys and girls from China or Japan, 
they show bad manners and make sad the heart of 
the Prince. He was especially kind always toward 
foreigners, and was careful not to hurt their feelings. 
Foreigners have feelings just as we have. When we 
are nice to them they feel happy, and when we 
wound them by our sharp words or sour looks they 



108 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

bleed. If there are foreign boys or girls in your 
school, and your companions sneer at them because 
of the way they look or talk or dress, you have a fine 
chance to prove that you are soldiers of the Prince. 
His true soldiers always stand up for human beings 
who are mistreated, and he said once that at the end 
of the world he would not forget those who had been 
good to strangers. 

If you are kind to foreigners when you are young, 
you will not be likely to say hateful things about 
foreign nations when you are grown. There are 
many bad mannered writers in America who are 
always saying mean and sarcastic things about other 
nations. The Prince, I am sure, is ashamed of them, 
and you ought to be ashamed of them too. They 
would not behave now so abominably if they had 
only been properly brought up! Wolves belong to 
their own pack, and savages belong to their own 
tribe, and barbarians belong to their own clan, but 
the soldiers of the Prince belong to the whole world, 
and they carry all the races in their heart. 

This then is one of the things which boys and girls 
can do ; they can stretch their hearts wide enough to 
take in all their brothers and sisters all the way 
around the world. They can form correct ideas of 
patriotism, and fix in their minds right notions of 
manliness and courage. True patriotism is love for 
one's country, but that love should never prevent our 
loving all other countries too. When we love our 
own home we are not expected to hate the homes 
in which other boys and girls live. The more we ap- 
preciate our own home, the more likely we are to ap- 




Copyright, Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. 

Helping the cripples made by war. 

This is one of the new trades in war countries — making legs and arms 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 109 

predate other homes. When we love our own home 
dearly, we understand better how dear are to others 
their homes. The patriotism which brags about 
one's own country, and sneers at all other countries 
is only a counterfeit patriotism. It is a demon which 
has dressed itself up in beautiful patriotic robes. Be- 
ware of it ! As soldiers of the Prince we must love 
all the nations on the earth, and try all the time to 
do them all the good we can. The higher other na- 
tions rise and the more they prosper, the better it is 
for us. Greediness and envy are awful things in a 
family of children, and they are still worse in a 
family of nations. Patriotism and guns, then, do not 
always go together. You can be a true patriot and 
never fire a gun. You can enroll yourself among the 
world's heroes and never march to the field of battle. 
To be true and just, to be generous and kind, to be 
cheerful and patient, to do one's duty without flinch- 
ing, and to endure whatever sufferings may come as 
the result of one's loyalty to the truth, that is hero- 
ism of the loftiest type. The courage that struts and 
blusters, and makes a great commotion in the world 
is often only the courage of a bull dog. What the 
world needs more than anything else is the courage 
of the Prince. He dared to defy the opinions of the 
leaders of thought and action, and to resist the fa- 
naticism of the mob. He stood out against the at- 
tacks of his enemies, and refused to fall in with the 
wrong wishes of his friends. He was loyal to the 
truth even unto death. He never killed anybody, 
but he was the bravest of the brave. Above the 



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names of all the heroes of human history, God has 
written the name of Jesus. 

But you can do more than have kind thoughts 
about foreign nations: you can do practical deeds. 
You cannot go to these foreign nations, but you can 
help to send somebody else. You can give at least 
a little of your money every year for the work of the 
Prince in distant lands. There are always many 
things which we want for ourselves, and we never 
have enough money to buy everything on which we 
have set our heart, but the soldiers of the Prince are 
ready to sacrifice, and they are willing to give up 
things which they want for themselves in order that 
they may help others. Of course no boy or girl can 
give a great deal, but there are millions of boys and 
girls in America, and if each one of them gives only 
a little, all of them together can give an enormous 
sum. Suppose that there are a million boys and 
girls of just your age in North America and that 
each one of them should give one cent a year for the 
support of the work of the Prince in foreign lands, 
how much would that be? If each should give two 
cents, five cents, ten cents, what would it amount to? 
Count it up for yourselves, and then begin to calcu- 
late how much it is going to be possible for you to 
give during this next year. If you have an allow- 
ance, how much can you spare from it without hurt- 
ing yourself too much? If you have no allowance, 
how much can you earn? Every boy and girl can 
earn a little if they only set about it, and it is ever 
so much more fun to earn money if you know that 
a part of it is going to the Prince. When you read 



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the life of John G. Paton you will learn of his ship 
the "Dayspring." I do not know what he could ever 
have done without that ship, and I do not know how 
he could have gotten it without the boys and girls. 
There is a great need of more beds in the hospitals 
of Africa and Asia, for the doctors are not able to 
attend to half the boys and girls who are sick, and I 
do not know how these additional beds are going 
to be paid for unless the boys and girls of America 
make up their mind to give more money. When you 
give money to help people far away, the place in 
which they live immediately begins to shine on the 
map. You cannot look any more at the map without 
seeing that place first of all. If you do not believe 
this, try it. If you send even one cent to help cure 
sick people on some Island in the Pacific ocean, the 
next time you look at the map this Island will jump 
up to meet your eye. If you want to like foreigners 
more and more, then you must help them. The more 
money you send abroad the easier your thoughts 
will travel, and the more eager will your feelings be 
to gather round the spot in which your money is 
working. The Prince never said a truer thing than 
this : "Where your treasure is, there will your heart 
be also." 

There is still another thing which boys and girls 
can do. They can read about what the soldiers of the 
Prince have done in many lands. Some boys think 
that there are no thrilling books but war books, and 
some girls think that there are no books which are 
really interesting but love stories. They think this 
because they have never read the books which tell 



112 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

of the soldiers of the Prince. Every boy and girl 
ought every year to read the life of at least one of 
these famous soldiers. There is no telling what 
might happen if every boy and girl would only do 
this. If you cannot get a book of this kind out of 
the library, then I should buy it. I should hint to 
my parents that I should like it for a present at 
Christmas. If any of my friends ever offered to give 
me a book, I should say, "Please give me the life of 
some great soldier of the Prince." Every boy and 
girl ought to have a little library of his own, and if 
you have not yet begun to build one, now is the time 
to start. Make up your mind that before twelve 
months have passed you will have one book in your 
new library, and if you add just one book each year, 
when you are forty years older you will have forty 
books. That is more than most people have at the 
end of forty years, and the reason is that they did 
not begin to build a library when they were young. 
No library is complete which does not have in it a 
few lives of the Prince's bravest soldiers. 

William Carey went as a soldier to India because 
when he was a boy he read the account of Captain 
Cook's voyages around the world. It was that book 
which put the world in William Carey's eye, and 
with the world once in his eye, he began to dream 
of fighting for the Prince on the other side of the 
globe. When David Livingstone was a boy he read 
about the wonderful work done for the Prince in 
China. It kindled in him a fire which never went 
out. An Ohio boy, James Thoburn, read a sermon 
one day about Mills and Judson and Newell, and a 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 113 

few years later this young man was a soldier of the 
Prince in India. If you have not heard of this 
Samuel Mills and his companions and of the won- 
derful Haystack prayer meeting they held one day in 
the rain near Williamstown, Massachusetts, you will 
want to read all about them as soon as you can. 

When Henry Martyn was young, he read the 
Life of David Brainerd, an American who spent his 
life among the Indians, teaching them the ideas of 
the Prince, and his heart was so stirred that he re- 
solved to give his life to the Prince to be used in 
foreign lands. If it had not been for David Brain- 
erd, Henry Martyn might never have gone to India. 
I do not know what David Brainerd might do for 
you if you only came to know him. 

It is wonderful how one person starts another to 
fighting for the Prince. Brainerd started Martyn 
and Martyn started Reginald Heber, and I do not 
know how many Heber has started. You all know 
the beautiful hymn: "Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God 
Almighty !" a hymn so nearly perfect that the great 
Alfred Tennyson wished he could have written it. 
That hymn was written by Reginald Heber, so also 
was the hymn : "The Son of God goes forth to war," 
a hymn which every boy and girl in America ought 
to tuck away in his mind, and so also was "From 
Greenland's icy mountains." What music may come 
into the world as the result of your reading about 
the soldiers of the Prince I do not know. 

There is a little island in the West Indies on which 
a long time ago there fought a brave soldier of the 
Prince. A book telling about this soldier and about 



114 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

a furious hurricane which once swept over his island 
fell into the hands of a little English boy — John Pat- 
teson. John was greatly excited by the story of the 
soldier and the hurricane, and rushing to his mother 
he exclaimed: "Mother, I will be a Bishop, and I 
will have a hurricane, too." When that boy grew to 
be a man he could not forget the book he had read 
years before, and before long he was a soldier of the 
Prince on another island in the far off South Pacific. 
The boys and girls of today are going to be men 
and women pretty soon. When they are grown, 
many of them will have boys and girls of their own, 
and what those boys and girls are going to read and 
do, will depend largely on what the boys and girls 
are reading now. You cannot tell, therefore, what 
you may do for the Prince, by reading now the lives 
of some of his soldiers. Who was it said : 

" Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime." 

It is certainly true, and there are no greater men 
than the great soldiers of the Prince. 

One more thing you can do, you can pray. You 
can talk to God about people you have never seen. 
You can talk to him about people you do not like. 
You will like them better after you have talked to 
him about them. You ought to talk to him often 
about the people on the big continents where the 
Prince is little known, and of course you will always 
speak a word for the people on the islands. More 
things are brought about by prayer than any of us 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 115 

imagine. We cannot see just what is accomplished, 
but it is not important that we shall see. We must 
do what the Prince says, whether we see the use of it 
at once or not. The Prince always prayed himself, 
and he requested every soldier of his to pray. He 
begged them not to faint. The first great soldier of 
the Prince — Paul — after he had named all the pieces 
of armor which a christian soldier must put on, added 
prayer. He saved it to the last because it is the most 
important. Unless we talk to God earnestly and 
often we cannot be victorious soldiers of the Prince. 

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER SIX 

1. What does the author mean by an "Empire of Love"? 

2. What should be the motto of this Empire? 

3. How did boys and girls help the Prince when he lived in 
Palestine? 

4. What is the first fort to be captured by the soldiers of the 
Prince? 

5. Find five important things that boys and girls can do to 
help establish an Empire of Love. 

6. What is race prejudice? Why is it an enemy in the 
Empire of Love? 

7. How can you use your money to help get the world in your 
eye and in your heart? 

8. What books ought you to have in your own library on the 
Soldiers of the Prince? 

9. What did David Brainerd lead two other soldiers of the 
Prince to do? 

10. Why ought soldiers of the Prince to form the habit of 
talking often with God? 



NOTE. These pages which 
follow are to serve as a chart 
and compass to the Juniors in 
their journey among the Sol- 
diers of the Prince. It will help 
(hem to find the real heroes of 
the world, to know what they 
have done to make them worth 
remembering and more than all 
else it will help the Juniors to 
take their stand (irmly 
on the side of 

PEACE 




Cathedral of Canterbury, England. 

A'work of Peace like some of those destroyed by War. The first soldiers of the Prince 
in England came to Canterbury 



CHART AND COMPASS 

FOR THE JUNIORS 
By Nellie G. Prescott 

My dear Junior: You have just returned, I suppose, from 
your tiip around the world with Jack and Janet. Everytime I 
have heard from you this last year you have been having a most 
delightful time. Not one single word have I received that you 
were seasick or homesick or, for any reason, wished that you 
had not taken the journey. I am glad of this, because I want you 
to start immediately on another trip which is very much more 
adventurous than the first one. 

With Jack and Janet you visited many delightful cities, were 
guests in the homes of our missionaries and made the acquaint- 
ance of many of the boys and girls of the Orient. This year 
you are going as soldiers many times, perhaps, around the world, 
in the army of the most wonderful Prince that has ever lived. 
How proud you must feel to be invited to go on such a journey! 
You will have no time to visit, but must always be looking for 
more soldiers of the Prince. 

You will need to travel very much faster than you did last year 
and to use aeroplanes, wishing caps, broom sticks and every other 
kind of rapid conveyance in order to go quickly from place to 
place and arrive on time. Why, sometimes, you will need to 
travel 12,000 miles in an hour and that is faster than we are in 
the habit of travelling even in 1916-17. 

"W 7 hy are we going on this very remarkable trip?" I hear you 
all asking. Well, 1 will leave you to find out and tell me when you 
come back. I am very sure that you will have no difficulty in 
discovering the reason. 

I hope you will have a happy journey, that you will prove loyal 
soldiers and that you will come home determined to love and 
serve the Prince of Peace as long as you live. 

Your friend, 

Nellie G. Prescott. 



The Prince and His Soldiers 

WHAT TO DO WITH CHAPTER ONE 

1. Read the chapter. 

2. Answer the questions at the close of the chapter. 

3. Draw an outline map of the world, make it just as large and 
clear as you can, and color the countries with different 
colors, if you own a paint box or set of crayons. Print on 
the map the names of the countries, oceans, important 
rivers, etc. Hang the map on the wall of your own room. 

4. Save up your money (going without gum, candy, etc., is an 
easy way to save) until you have 25 cents. Then buy a globe 
of the world and put it on the table in your room. If you can 
save more than 25 cents you can buy a larger and a better 
globe. 

5. Locate on your map and glebe the country of every one 
mentioned in Chapter I: 

Oliver Cromwell Timothy Hannibal 

William Carey Caesar Leonidas 

Jesus Christ Alexander Horatius 

Paul Napoleon Marshal Ney 

Make sure that you know exactly why these men are men- 
tioned. 

6. Organize the Body Guard of the Prince of Peace for the 
journey in search of soldiers. 

Buy several sheets of card-board Boy Scouts — one cent each, 
12 on a sheet. Cut them out and fasten a strip of stiffer 
cardboard on the back so that each boy scout will stand 
erect and alone. On the end of the gun which rests on his 
shoulder glue a very narrow piece of white paper on which 
you have printed what this soldier in the Body Guard of the 
Prince fights with, as for instance: patience, loyalty, justice, 
truth, friendship, work, etc. How many soldiers do you need 
in this Body Guard? That is theirs* thing for you to settle 
in this journey. 

Arrange these soldiers in orderly rows and at their head place 
one soldier who has fastened over his gun a flag of the world 
which you have made, using the design on the cover of your 
book as a pattern. 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 119 



7. Make the acquaintance of William Carey and find out how 
many of these weapons of peace he used and what he accom- 
plished with them. This will take you to England and to 
India. 

Was William Carey a soldier of the Prince of Peace? 

This is the second thing for you to decide. 

8. Buy a set of paper dolls, illustrating the children of the War 
Zone. 

There are five boys and five girls in the set, from Bulgaria, 
Russia, etc. Ask your Junior Leader to order a set for you — 
25 cents and postage — or send to M. H. Leavis, West Med- 
ford, Mass. 

Cut out the dolls and the costumes. Write out a story of 
each child, describing how the war has changed the lives 
of these boys and girls. Write from 100 to 200 words. 
Make an attractive cover for them and exchange these 
stories with those that other Juniors write. 



WHY MEN AND NATIONS QUARREL 

DO YOU? 

# 

1. Read the chapter. 

2. Answer the questions at the end. 

3. Locate on your map and globe the countries of the Assyrians, 
Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and 
Spaniards. Is it easy to find them all? Why not? 

4. Increase, if you can, the number of soldiers in the Body 
Guard of the Prince. 

5. Print neatly on a card the reasons why men and nations 
quarrel. 

Make a frame for the card of cardboard or wood and fasten 
it to the wall in your room. Take another card and print on 
it: 

Soldiers of the Prince 

A brave soldier holds his tongue. 

A strong soldier controls his temper. 

A manly soldier does not strike with his fists. 

A loyal soldier obeys the orders of the Prince. 



120 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

6. Go at once to Turkey and find a brave man who lived there 
from 1839 to 1888, during a great war, and, without striking 
a blow, won a great victory. Know this man, so that he will 
always be your friend. This is the third thing for you 
to do. 

7. Make a flag to be used by all the nations of the world when 
quarreling and war have ceased. 

Buy a set of the Flags of the Nations — 25 cents a set, with 
postage, 5 cents — 4 sheets — 96 beautifully colored flags on 
perforated, gummed paper. If your Board has not ordered 
them, you can order from M. H. Leavis, West Medford, 
Mass. 

Make a large flag of the world, using as your pattern the 
design on the cover of your book. Cut out the flags from the 
sheets and stick onto the World Flag, arranging them in 
as artistic a manner as you can. Keep this flag in a promi- 
nent place in your room and take it with you when you go 
to your Junior meetings. When you are not using it, you 
might lend it to the deacons or pastor for use in the prayer 
meetings or to the president of the Woman's Missionary 
Society. 



BEING A SOLDIER EVERY DAY 

WHAT THIS MEANS TO 
A JUNIOR 

1. Read the chapter and answer the questions at the end. 

2. Find the country where the following soldiers of the Prince 
lived, and locate on the map. 

Robert Louis Stevenson John Hampden 

Wm. Lloyd Garrison Abraham Lincoln 

Savonarola Henry Ward Beecher 

Martin Luther 

3. Tell from memory to some one who has never heard it, the 
story of John Coleridge Patterson. 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 121 

Make a list of 50 nameless Every Day Soldiers who are doing 
brave, useful things that really count, as for instance: 
policemen, firemen, etc. Fasten this list in your room where 
you can see it every day. When you hear, see or read of 
something that one of them has done, fasten a small gold 
star opposite the name. 

Boxes of Dennison's Stars may be bought at any station- 
er's — 10 cents a box. 

Add your own name to the list and see how many stars you 
are able to win. 

Go over the world until you find a quiet everyday soldier who 
has the three virtues that all the soldiers of the Prince must 
possess and whom you choose for your hero. You may wish 
to stop with Mary Reed in India, Dr. Hoskins of Beirut, 
Syria, or Dr. Mary Niles of Canton, China. They are all 
worth knowing and are good soldiers of the Prince. 

This is the fourth trip you are asked to take. 

Organize a company of Every Day Soldiers— from the sheets 
of Boy Scouts — putting the name of each soldier on the piece 
of white paper glued to the gun. Form them in line behind 
the Body Guard of the Prince. 

Either buy a book for kodak pictures or make as attractive 
a one as you can. Into this paste the pictures of as many 
soldiers of the Prince as you can find. Under each picture 
write one sentence to tell why you consider that he or she 
is a soldier. 

Perhaps you would prefer to have two books of Kodak Snaps, 
one called Famous Soldiers of the Prince, and the other, 
Every Day Soldiers. 

Make a Soldier Puzzle as follows: 

Paste the pictures of peace soldiers on to cardboard, printing 
the name under each. Then cut these into all sorts of queer 
shapes and put three or four together, nicely mixed, into a 
box. Bring this game to the meeting of the Junior Band 
and exchange with some other Junior. If all the boys and 
girls make one or more, you might have a Soldier Puzzle 
Party, some afternoon. 




122 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 

FAMOUS SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 
OF LONG AGO 

HOW TO GET ACQUAINTED 

1. Read the chapter and answer the questions at the end. 

2. Make little cardboard flags, and print on each the name of 
some famous soldier of the Prince of long ago. Use red 
cardboard for the soldiers famous in 
war and white for those famous in 
peace. Fasten the flags to your map 
with colored pins in the proper posi- 
tion. Add to the list given in the 
chapter until the map is covered with 
the flags. You might also indicate 
the position of the soldiers on y ur 
globe by sticking white and red-headed 
pins in at the proper places. 

3. Which one of the six soldiers of the Prince mentioned in this 
chapter do you adopt as your hero? Find all you can about 
him and write it out on the blank page at the back of the 
book. 

4. Travel over the world of long ago and find six more soldiers 
whom you consider worthy followers of the Prince of Peace. 
Make them your friends. Be sure to add their names to your 
map. 

This is your fifth long journey. 

5. Organize a second company of soldiers of the Prince, calling 
it the Ancients, and bring them into line behind the other 
company. 

6. Matching Soldiers— (to be played with other Juniors). 

Choose sides and a leader. The leader calls upon one side 
to give the name of a soldier of war, then upon the other side 
to give the name of a soldier of peace. Immediately the 
first side gives the reason for its choice and the other side 
follows. If either side fails, the other side wins a Junior. 

7. Spelling Match. Choose sides and leaders. The leader of 
one side opens the game by giving the name of a soldier of 
the Prince, the first letter of which is A, and begins at once 
to spell it. Before this is finished, the other side mentions 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 123 



a soldier whose name also begins with A, and begins the 
spelling, whereupon the first side gives another. This con- 
tinues until either one side or the other succeeds in 
spelling a name without interruption. The successful side 
thus wins a point and immediately mentions a soldier whose 
name begins with B. The game proceeds in this manner 
throughout the alphabet, the side that gains the larger num- 
ber of points winning. Each leader may receive suggestions 
from his or her side in writing. 



THE SOLDIERS OF YESTERDAY 
FOR THE SOLDIERS OF TOMORROW 

1. Read the chapter and answer the questions. 

2. Add to your map the names of the ten soldiers of Yesterday 
mentioned in the chapter and as many more as you can find. 

3. Study this famous War against Disease and become ac- 

quainted with 

General Bubonic Plague, 

General Cholera, 

General Leprosy, 

General Tuberculosis, 

General Ignorance of Hygiene, 

General Blindness, 

General Neglect of Little Children. 

What climates and countries seem to agree with these 
generals? Hunt the world over for the soldiers of the 
Prince who have fought these generals. Make a note of 
those who have lost their lives in the war. 
This is your sixth journey. 

4. Organize a third company to be called the Medical Corps, 
including all of the doctors and nurses who have fought in 
this war against Disease. 

5. Make a journey to Allahabad, North India, and become 
acquainted with Mr. Sam Higginbottom who is in charge of 
the lepers. Find the Missionary of your own Board who 
is working for lepers. 

This is your seventh trip. 



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SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 



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6. Soldiers Up-to-date. Cut fifty pieces of cardboard 3}^x 
2% inches. Make a list of one hundred soldiers of the 
Prince, and write out two or three questions about each 
soldier. Print the names and questions on the cards placing 
two or three soldiers on each card with the accompanying 
questions, as follows: 

Rules for the game; to be 

played with other Juniors or 

with the family. Divide the 

cards among the players. The 

dealer asks the Junior on his 

left a question from one of his 

cards. If the Junior answers 

correctly he takes the card from 

the questioner and lays it aside. 

If he is wrong or does not know, 

the questioner takes a card 

from him, lays it aside and the 

question passes to the next 

Junior. This continues until 

the question is answered. The 

questioner then loses his turn 

which passes to the next player. 

The one who lays aside the 

largest number of cards wins 

the game. You might arrange 

the cards in books of four, as in the Game of Authors, and 

play it, using the same rules as you do for that game. 

You and some other Juniors may be able to prepare this 
game in such good style, using attractively colored card- 
boards and dainty boxes, that children and even older people 
may be anxious to buy. You may be able to make some 
money for your missionary box in this way. 



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7. Impersonations. You, with four other Juniors, may take 
the parts, relating in the first person some of the most 
interesting experiences in the lives of five soldiers of the 
Prince. 

You might dress in costume to represent the period and the 
country in which each lived. 

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SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 125 

The names given here are only suggestions. 

P St. Patrick, 

E John Eliot, 

A Augustine, 

C Columba, 

E Jonathan Edwards. 

Try spelling out the words Hero and Soldiers with other 
names. 



WHAT BOYS AND GIRLS CAN DO FOR 
THE EMPIRE OF LOVE 

THIS MEANS YOU 

1. Read the chapter and answer the questions. 

2. Take account of stock. 

What different countries have you visited in your search 
for soldiers? 

How many have you found? Are they all worth knowing? 
Have they done more for the world than the soldiers of War 
of whom you have heard? 

What was the motive in the hearts of all of these soldiers 
of the Prince? 

3. Organize a club for the Soldiers of the Prince ; Be a charter 
member; Buy a Peace Button to wear every day; Choose the 
Golden Rule for your motto; Adopt the following for your 
Rules of Conduct: 

1. I will keep my own heart friendly and sweet 

2. I will be a peacemaker. 

3. I will be kind to foreigners. 

4. I will be interested in people all around the world. 

5. I will give my money that boys and girls may learn 
about the Prince. 

6. I will form the habit of talking every day with the 
Father of the Prince, 



126 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 



4. Read the life of one of the Soldiers of the Prince : 

John G. Paton David Livingstone 

James Calvert James Hannington 

Dr. John MacKenzie Dr. A. F. Jackson 

Cyrus Hamlin Mary Reed 

Pundita Ramabai 

When you have read one I hope you will want to read them 
all, just as fast as you can. 

5. Start a Club Library (see list of books and prices given 
below). Each member of the club might contribute a book. 
If this is impossible, ask your Sunday school superintendent 
to have the books added to the S. S. library. Keep asking 
until he does it. 

6. Adopt for your own special hymn as a Soldier of the Prince: 

"True-hearted, whole-hearted, faithful and loyal 

King of our lives, by Thy grace we will be. 
Under the standard, exalted and royal, 
Strong in Thy strength we will battle for Thee." Etc. 

7. Add as many to your club as you can, asking each new mem- 

ber to wear the Peace Button, accept the Motto and the 
Rules of Conduct. Perhaps you and some other Juniors 
might have the Rules of Conduct printed on a card, so that 
you could have them ready to give to new members. It 
would not cost very much. A friendly printer might make 
you a special reduction if you should show him your Rules. 
He would be almost sure to approve. 



SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 127 



Library for the Soldiers of the Prince 

COLPORTAGE LIBRARY, 

PUBLISHED BY FLEMING H. REVELL CO., 

156 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK CITY 

15c. a copy— 8 for $1.00 

Life of William Carey. 

Life of Alexander Duff. 

Life of Adoriram Judson. 

Life of David Livingstone. 

Life of Henry Martyn and Samuel Mills. 

Life of Robert Moffat. 

***** 

Winners of the W r orld— Gardner— 60c. Pub. by Revell. 
Fifty Missionary Stories— Brain— 60c. Pub. by Revell. 
Pioneer Missionaries of the Church— Creegan — $1.25— Am. 

Tract Soc, N. Y. 

***** 

The following may be obtained by your Junior Leader through 

denominational headquarters: 60c. cloth — 40c. paper. 
Uganda's White Man of Work (Alexander MacKay). 
The Black Bearded Barbarian (George Leslie MacKay). 
Livingstone the Pathfinder. 

Under Marching Orders (Mrs. Gamewell of China). 
Ann of Ava Ann Hasseltine Judson). 
Judson the Pioneer. 
Servants of the King. 
Comrades in Service (in cloth only) 60c. 
The Cobra's Den— Chamberlin— $1.00. Pub. by Revell. 



The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church publishes the following series of biographi- 
cal leaflets: 



PIONEER SERIES, 2 CENTS EACH 

William Carey, India. 
The Haystack Prayer Meeting. 
Adoniram Judson, Burma. 
Robert Morrison, China. 
Melinda Rankin, Mexico. 
Moffatt & Livingstone, Africa. 
John G. Paton, New Hebrides. 



128 SOLDIERS OF THE PRINCE 



Hans Egede, Greenland. 

John Williams, South Sea Islands. 

Joseph Neesima, Japan. 

Titus Coan of Hilo. 

Alexander MacKay of Uganda. 

Raymond Lull, Moslems. 

Henry Martyn, Moslems. 

Ion Keith Falconer, Arabia. 

Captain Allen Gardiner, South America. 

Ann YVilkins, Africa. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 

Annie Budden's Noble Work 03 

Clara M. Swaim, M.D 02 

Charlotte M. Tucker 02 

Delia Fuller 02 

Esther Kim Pak, M.D 03 

Fidelia Fiske 02 

Fanny J. Butler, M.D 02 

Gertrude Howe 03 

Hu King Eng, M.D 02 

Harriet M. Warren 02 

Hannah Marshman 02 

Isabella Thoburn 02 

Lilavati Singh 02 

Lilavati Singh sketch) 29 

LiBiCu,M.D 02 

Mary Louise Whatley 02 

Mrs. T. C. Doremus 02 

Mary Stone and Ida Kahn 02 

Martha Sheldon, M.D 02 

Mary Reed r 02 

Mary Lyon . '. 02 

Melinda Rankin 02 

Pundita Ramabal 05 

Phoebe Rowe 02 

Rosetta Sherwood Hall, M.D 02 

William Carey 02 



COPIES OF FORMER EDITIONS OF 

JUNIOR BOOKS 

may be obtained at 
REDUCED RATES 

FROM * 
M. H. LEA VIS, West Medford, Mass. 

These include "The World Family" by Helen 
B. Billings; "Around the World with Jack and 
Janet" by Norma R. Waterbury. We still 
have a limited number of sets of the Jack and 
Janet paper dolls with oriental costumes. 
Price of books, paper covers, 25 cents, postage 
5 cents ; board covers, 50 cents, postage 5 cents. 
Paper dolls 25 cents a set, postage 5 cents. 

A Choice Collection of Beautiful 

CHRISTMAS CARDS AND 

BOOKLETS 

"Around the World with Santa Claus," "The 
Carpenter's Shop," "The Beautiful Life," 
"Elizabeth's Pine Tree," etc., may be obtained 

FROM 

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